Affiliation:
1. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4030, USA
Abstract
We conduct a pair of quasirandom estimations of the separability probabilities with respect to 10 measures on the 15-dimensional convex set of two-qubit states, using its Euler-angle parametrization. The measures include the (nonmonotone) Hilbert–Schmidt one, plus nine others based on operator monotone functions. Our results are supportive of previous assertions that the Hilbert–Schmidt and Bures (minimal monotone) separability probabilities are [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], respectively, as well as suggestive of the Wigner–Yanase counterpart being [Formula: see text]. However, one result appears inconsistent (much too small) with an earlier claim of ours that the separability probability associated with the operator monotone (geometric-mean) function [Formula: see text] is [Formula: see text]. But a seeming explanation for this disparity is that the volume of states for the [Formula: see text]-based measure is infinite. So, the validity of the earlier conjecture — as well as an alternative one, [Formula: see text], we now introduce — cannot be examined through the numerical approach adopted, at least perhaps not without some truncation procedure for extreme values.
Funder
National Science Foundation
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd
Subject
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)