2010/01/13 by Hoelscher-Obermaier, Jason, van Loock, Peter
#FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1001.2225
We show that the following nontrivial necessary precondition for an entanglement evolution equation for pure Gaussian states under one-sided Gaussian channels holds. Suppose a Gaussian quantum channel acts on one mode of a pure entangled multi-mode Gaussian input state. Then, for a fixed channel, either all output states are entangled or none of them are. In other words, if the input state is Gaussian, pure and entangled, the separability after a one-sided Gaussian quantum channel does not depend on the input state, but only on the channel. Furthermore, a simple linear-algebraic separability criterion allows to decide whether a given channel destroys the entanglement of pure entangled input states or leaves them entangled.