Concurrence in arbitrary dimensions

Piotr Badziag, Piotr Deuar, Michal Horodecki, Pawel Horodecki, Ryszard Horodecki

Published 2001-07-30Version 1

We argue that a complete characterisation of quantum correlations in bipartite systems of many dimensions may require a quantity which, even for pure states, does not reduce to a single number. Subsequently, we introduce multi-dimensional generalizations of concurrence and find evidence that they may provide useful tools for the analysis of quantum correlations in mixed bipartite states. We also introudce {\it biconcurrence} that leads to a necessary and sufficient condition for separability.