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One-qubit reduced states of a pure many-qubit state: polygon inequalities
A Higuchi1, A Sudbery, J Szulc
1Department of Mathematics, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom. ah28@york.ac.uk
Physical Review Letters
|April 12, 2003
Abstract:
We show that a necessary and sufficient condition for a set of n one-qubit mixed states to be the reduced states of a pure n-qubit state is that their smaller eigenvalues should satisfy polygon inequalities: each of them must be no greater than the sum of the others.