{ "id": "1301.3442", "version": "v1", "published": "2013-01-15T18:23:20.000Z", "updated": "2013-01-15T18:23:20.000Z", "title": "Entanglement witnesses for a class of bipartite states of n x n qubits", "authors": [ "Fabio Benatti", "Mahya Karbalaii" ], "comment": "25 pages", "categories": [ "math-ph", "math.MP", "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "We characterize the positive maps detecting the entangled bipartite states of n x n qubits that are diagonal with respect to the orthonormal basis constructed by tensor products of Pauli matrices acting on the totally symmetric state. We then discuss the case n=2 for a class of states completely determined by the geometric patterns of subsets of a 16 point lattice.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2013-01-15T18:23:20.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "entanglement witnesses", "geometric patterns", "tensor products", "entangled bipartite states", "totally symmetric state" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 25, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }