Separability criteria based on the bloch representation of density matrices

Quantum Information and Computation

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 624-638

  De Vicente, Julio I ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bipartite quantum systems; Bloch representation; Entanglement

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; QUANTUM OPTICS;

ARBITRARY DIMENSION; BIPARTITE QUANTUM SYSTEMS; BLOCH REPRESENTATION; BOUND ENTANGLED STATE; DENSITY MATRIX; ENTANGLEMENT; PRODUCT STATE; SEPARABILITY CRITERION;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 34547528446     PISSN: 15337146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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