Two-Qubit Rational-Valued Entanglement-Boundary Probability Densities and a Fisher Information Equality Conjecture

TL;DR

This paper investigates probability densities related to two-qubit quantum states, proposing a Fisher information equality conjecture and analyzing boundary densities with rational values, revealing complex patterns without a concise formula.

Contribution

It introduces a conjecture that Fisher information is identical for two distinct families of quantum state distributions and provides detailed boundary density analyses with rational values.

Findings

Fisher information conjecture for two families of distributions

Explicit rational boundary densities p_alpha(0) for specific alpha values

Derivative signs of p_alpha'(0) vary with alpha

Abstract

We consider a pair of one-parameter (alpha) families of generalized two-qubit determinantal Hilbert-Schmidt probability distributions, p_{alpha}(|rho^{PT}|) and q_{alpha}(|rho|), where rho is a 4 x 4 density matrix, rho^{PT}, its partial transpose, with |rho^{PT}| \in [-1/16,1/256] and |rho| \in [0, 1/256]. The Dyson-index-like (random matrix) parameter alpha is 1/2 for the 9-dimensional generic two-rebit systems, 1 for the 15-dimensional generic two-qubit systems,... Numerical (moment-based probability-distribution-reconstruction) analyses suggest the conjecture that the Fisher information--a measure over alpha--is identical for the two distinct families. Further, we study the values of p_{alpha}(0), the probability densities at the separability-entanglement boundary, with evidence strongly indicating that p_2(0) =7425/34 and p_3(0)= 7696/69. Despite extensive results of such a nature, we have not yet succeeded--in contrast with the corresponding rational-valued separability probabilities (arXiv.org:1301.6617)--in generating an underlying, explanatory ("concise") formula for p_{\alpha}(0), even though the corresponding denominators of both sets of rational-valued results are closely related, having almost identical (small) prime factors. The first derivatives p_{alpha}^{'}(0) are positive for alpha = 1/2 and 1, but negative for alpha > 1.