Abstract
A quantum system consisting of two subsystems is separable if its density matrix can be written as where and are density matrices for the two subsystems, and the positive weights satisfy . In this Letter, it is proved that a necessary condition for separability is that a matrix, obtained by partial transposition of ρ, has only non-negative eigenvalues. Some examples show that this criterion is more sensitive than Bell's inequality for detecting quantum inseparability.
- Received 8 April 1996
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.1413
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