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Realignment operation has a significant role in detecting bound as well as free entanglement. Just like partial transposition, it is also based on permutations of the matrix elements. However, the physical implementation of realignment operation is not known yet. In this letter, we address the problem of experimental realization of realignment operation and to achieve this aim, we propose a theoretical proposal for the same. We first show that after applying the realignment operation on a bipartite state, the resulting matrix can be expressed in terms of the partial transposition operation along with column interchange operations. We observed that these column interchange operations forms a permutation matrix which can be implemented via SWAP operator acting on the density matrix. This mathematical framework is used to exactly determine the first moment of the realignment matrix experimentally. This has been done by showing that the first moment of the realignment matrix can be expressed as the expectation value of a SWAP operator which indicates the possibility of its measurement. Further, we have provided an estimation of the higher order realigned moments in terms of the first realigned moment and thus pave a way to estimate the higher order moments experimentally. Next, we develop moments based entanglement detection criteria that detect positive partial transpose entangled states (PPTES) as well as negative partial transpose entangled states (NPTES). Moreover, we define a new matrix realignment operation for three-qubit states and have devised an entanglement criteria that is able to detect three-qubit fully entangled states. We have developed various methods and techniques in the detection of bipartite and tripartite entangled states that may be realized in the current technology., Comment: 10 Pages, 3 figures

Detection of entanglement through partial knowledge of the quantum state is a challenge to implement efficiently. Here we propose a separability criterion for detecting bipartite entanglement in arbitrary dimensional quantum states using partial moments of the realigned density matrix. Our approach enables detection of both distillable and bound entangled states through a common framework. We illustrate the efficiency of our method through examples of states belonging to both the above categories, which are not detectable using comparable other schemes relying on partial state information. The formalism of employing partial realigned moments proposed here is further shown to be effective for two-qubit systems too, with a slight modification of our separability criterion., Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures

Entanglement detection is an important problem in quantum information theory because quantum entanglement is a key resource in quantum information processing. Realignment criteria is a powerful tool for detection of entangled states in bipartite and multipartite quantum system. It is an important criteria for entanglement detection because it works well; not only for negative partial transpose entangled states (NPTES) but also for positive partial transpose entangled states (PPTES). Since the matrix corresponding to realignment map is indefinite so the experimental implementation of the map is an obscure task. In this work, firstly, we have approximated the realignment map to a positive map using the method of structural physical approximation (SPA) and then we have shown that the structural physical approximation of realignment map (SPA-R) is completely positive. Positivity of the constructed map is characterized using moments which can be physically measured. Next, we develop a separability criterion based on our SPA-R map in the form of an inequality and have shown that the developed criterion not only detect NPTES but also PPTES. We have provided some examples to support the results obtained. Moreover, we have analysed the error that may occur because of approximating the realignment map., Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, Appendix, Accepted in Physical Review A

Entanglement detection problem is one of the important problem in quantum information theory. Gurvit showed that this problem is NP complete and thus this may be the possible reason that only one criterion is not sufficient to detect all entangled states. There are some powerful entanglement detection criterion such as partial transposition criterion, realignment criterion but it may not be possible to implement them successfully in the experiment. This situation can be avoided if the entanglement is detected through the construction of witness operator method. In this work, we take an analytical approach to construct a witness operator. To achieve this task, we first construct a linear map using partial transposition and realignment operation. Then we find some conditions on the parameters of the map for which the map represent a positive map. Further, we have constructed a Choi matrix corresponding to the map and have shown that it is not completely positive. We then construct an entanglement witness operator, which is based on the linear combination of the function of Choi matrix and the identity matrix and it can detect both NPTES and PPTES. Finally, we prove its efficiency by detecting several bipartite bound entangled states which were previously undetected by some well-known separability criteria. We also compared the detection power of our witness operator with three well-known powerful entanglement detection criteria, namely, dV criterion, CCNR criterion and the separability criteria based on correlation tensor (CT) proposed by Sarbicki et. al. and find that our witness operator detect more entangled states than these criterion., Comment: Accepted in Annals of Physics. In this work, we propose a witness operator detects more entangled states than the other detection criteria, namely, dV criterion, CCNR criterion and separability criterion based on correlation tensor

It is known that the witness operator is useful in the detection and quantification of entangled states. This motivated us for the construction of the family of witness operators that can detect many mixed entangled states. This family of witness operators is then used to estimate the lower bound of concurrence of the detected mixed entangled states. Our method of construction of witness operator is important in the sense that it will estimate a better lower bound of concurrence of the entangled states in arbitrary $d_{1}\otimes d_{2} (d_{1}\leq d_{2})$ dimensional system compared to the lower bound of the concurrence given in \cite{kchen}. We have shown the significance of our constructed witness operator by detecting many bound entangled states that are not detected by the earlier methods and then we use the expectation value of the witness operator to estimate the lower bound of the concurrence of those bound entangled states., Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, 4 Tables. Accepted in Quantum Information Processing, 2021