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Xiao-Lan Zong

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arXiv2026

Supporting functionals and singular boundary geometry of two-qubit entanglement of formation

We give a criterion for the existence of a global supporting affine functional for the entanglement of formation at an entangled two-qubit state. It exists if and only if the spin-flip bilinear form is nondegenerate on the support of the state, or equivalently, if the last concurrence root associated with the support is nonzero. In this case the entanglement of formation satisfies a two-sided Lipschitz bound relative to the reference state. In the degenerate case the state has rank two or three, and its projective support is tangent to the product-state quadric. By suitably choosing a perturbation outside the original support space, the decrease in the entanglement of formation is, to leading order, proportional to the square root of the mixing parameter. We give an explicit expression for the leading coefficient. Such a square-root decrease violates the one-sided Lipschitz bound, and therefore no globally supported affine functional exists at this state.

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arXiv2026

Complete Classification of Reversible Entanglement Transformations of Two Qutrits

Suppose Alice and Bob can transform one shared mixed state into another by local operations and classical communication, and can also recover the first state from the second. What can change in such a conversion? We give a complete classification of reversible conversions between two-qutrit states. We consider exact deterministic LOCC transformations of a single copy, allowing finite protocols and the countable protocols specified here. Local flags are known to allow a separable part to be replaced by local preparation while an entangled block is retained. We prove that such a decomposition is necessary for two mutually convertible entangled states that are not locally unitarily equivalent. The two parts are distinguishable by local measurements. The entangled blocks have the same weight and are locally unitarily equivalent after normalization. Each entangled state has a unique smallest retained block. Two entangled states are reversibly convertible if and only if these unnormalized blocks are locally unitarily equivalent. For a state with negative partial transpose, the smallest block can be found using the negative eigenspace of its partial transpose and at most three matrix zero tests.

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arXiv2026

Kempe-Invariant Ordering of Three-Qubit Pairwise Entanglement under Local Depolarization

Pure three-qubit states with the same pairwise concurrences and three-tangle can still have different Kempe invariants. We show that the Kempe invariant orders the entanglement dynamics of all three pairs under identical, independent local depolarizing channels, with smaller values giving greater robustness. The same ordering also holds for the sum of squared pairwise entanglements of formation and the sudden-death thresholds of pairwise entanglement.

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arXiv2026

Five-Dimensional Compatibility and Stratified Local-Unitary Structure of Pure Three-Qubit States

We investigates the joint compatibility problem of the three pairwise concurrences, the three-tangle, and the Kempe invariant in arbitrary pure three-qubit states, and gives necessary and sufficient conditions for these five quantities to be simultaneously realizable by the same pure state. This five-dimensional compatibility region can be viewed as a fiber structure over the previously derived four-dimensional reachable region. We further find that the residual continuous local-unitary freedom depends on the position of the state within this region. In the generic interior, one continuous degree of freedom remains. It is fixed if the three-tangle vanishes or a pairwise concurrence becomes zero, and also at the boundary of the four-dimensional tangle region. The Kempe invariant gives the simplest algebraic parametrization of the fifth coordinate, but the same degree of freedom may be described by a known pure-state entanglement monotone. The compatibility conditions can also be expressed in terms of concurrence-based bipartite measures and multipartite quantities fixed by the pairwise concurrences and the three-tangle.

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arXiv2022

Monogamy of quantum entanglement

Unlike classical correlation, quantum entanglement cannot be freely shared among many parties. This restricted shareability of entanglement among multi-party systems is known as monogamy of entanglement, which is one of the most fundamental properties of entanglement. Here, we summarize recent theoretical progress in the field of monogamy of entanglement. We firstly review the standard CKW-type monogamy inequalities in terms of various entanglement measures. In particular, the squashed entanglement and one-way distillable entanglement are monogamous for arbitrary dimensional systems. We then introduce some generalized version of monogamy inequalities which extend and sharpen the traditional ones. We also consider the dual polygamy inequalities for multi-party systems. Moreover, we present two new definitions to define monogamy of entanglement. Finally, some challenges and future directions for monogamy of entanglement are highlighted.

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