Polynomial Monogamy Relations for Entanglement Negativity

TL;DR

This paper introduces polynomial monogamy relations for entanglement negativity, providing a new non-linear inequality that characterizes quantum correlations and their distribution limits in multipartite systems.

Contribution

It derives the first non-linear polynomial monogamy inequality for entanglement negativity, expanding understanding of quantum correlation constraints.

Findings

Negativity saturates linear monogamy only in trivial cases.

A necessary and sufficient polynomial inequality is established.

Negativity can be distributed at least linearly in large systems.

Abstract

The notion of non-classical correlations is a powerful contrivance for explaining phenomena exhibited in quantum systems. It is well known, however, that quantum systems are not free to explore arbitrary correlations---the church of the smaller Hilbert space only accepts monogamous congregants. We demonstrate how to characterize the limits of what is quantum mechanically possible with a computable measure, entanglement negativity. We show that negativity only saturates the standard linear monogamy inequality in trivial cases implied by its monotonicity under LOCC, and derive a necessary and sufficient inequality which, for the first time, is a non-linear higher degree polynomial. For very large quantum systems, we prove that the negativity can be distributed at least linearly for the tightest constraint and conjecture that it is at most linear.