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Does partial tracing a system with three shared Bell states give the identity?

Quantum Computing Asked on December 4, 2020

Suppose I share three Bell states among two participants Alice and Bob and Charlie in the following manner:
$$ |psirangle=left(dfrac{|0rangle_1|0rangle_2+ |1rangle_1|1rangle_2}{sqrt{2}}right)left(dfrac{|0rangle_3|0rangle_4+ |1rangle_3|1rangle_4}{sqrt{2}}right)left(dfrac{|0rangle_5|0rangle_6+ |1rangle_5|1rangle_6}{sqrt{2}}right) $$
I want to find out the density matrix for $A$ whos has qubits $(1,4)$ the others have say $(2,3)$ and $(5,6)$. So I first calculate $|psiranglelanglepsi|$ and then take the trace over the particles $(2356)$, Since this is a long computation, we can just notice that the terms whose inner product will be involved are $$langle0000|rho|0000rangle,langle0100|rho|0100rangle, langle1000|rho|1000rangle,langle1100|rho|1100rangle,langle0011|rho|0011rangle,langle0111|rho|0111rangle,langle1011|rho|1011rangle,langle1111|rho|1111rangle,$$ the result I get on calculating this is $$dfrac{2left(|0rangle_1|0rangle_4langle0|_1langle0|_4+|0rangle_1|1rangle_4langle0|_1langle1|_4+|1rangle_1|0rangle_4langle1|_1langle0|_4+|1rangle_1|1rangle_4langle1|_1langle1|_4right)}{8}=dfrac{mathbb{I}otimes mathbb{I}}{4} $$ Is this correct? What does this density matrix say about the information that the players have about each others particles?

2 Answers

The result is correct. You can see it in the other way. You have three two-qubit subsystems $A = {1,2}$, $B = {3,4}$ and $C = {5,6}$. The whole state is the product state on those three subsystems, i.e. the whole density matrix is $rho_A otimes rho_B otimes rho_C$. Product state means there are absolutely no correlations between the states on subsystems. Hence you can fully ignore the $C$ subsystem if you are interested only in the state on $D = {1,4}$. Also since $rho_{AB} = rho_{A} otimes rho_{B}$ then it must be $rho_D = rho_1 otimes rho_4$.

Answered by Danylo Y on December 4, 2020

What does this density matrix say about the information that the players have about each others particles?

Nothing, if no further assumptions are made on the initial state. If $A$ and $B$ share a state $rho$, a reduced state $rho^A$ doesn't say anything about the information that $A$ has about $B$'s state. Indeed, $B$ can have any state as far as $A$ knows: any shared state of the form $rho^Aotimes sigma$ is compatible with $A$'s knowledge, for any state $sigma$.

If on the other hand Alice knows that the initial state is pure, then knowing that their share of the state is $rho^A$, $A$ can infer the entropy of $B$'s state, because $S(rho^A)=S(rho^B)$. Nothing else can be said though, as any local operation applied to $B$ will not change $A$'s outcomes.

Answered by glS on December 4, 2020

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