Extrapolated Quantum States, Void States, and a Huge Novel Class of Distillable Entangled States

Abstract

A nice and interesting property of any pure tensor-product state is that each such state has distillable entangled states at an arbitrarily small distance $ε$ in its neighborhood. We say that such nearby states are $ε$-entangled, and we call the tensor product state in that case, a "boundary separable state", as there is entanglement at any distance from this "boundary". Here we find a huge class of separable states that also share that property mentioned above -- they all have $ε$-entangled states at any small distance in their neighborhood. Furthermore, the entanglement they have is proven to be distillable. We then extend this result to the discordant/classical cut and show that all classical states (correlated and uncorrelated) have discordant states at distance $ε$, and provide a constructive method for finding $ε$-discordant states.

A preliminary version of this work was presented at the 3rd International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing TPNC 2014 (Boyer and Mor (2014))