Threshold entanglement sharing: quantum states with absolutely separable marginals

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Main Authors: Rico, Albert, Abellanet-Vidal, Jofre, Kothakonda, Naga Bhavya Teja, Sanpera, Anna, Munné, Gerard Anglès
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Published: 2026
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author Rico, Albert
Abellanet-Vidal, Jofre
Kothakonda, Naga Bhavya Teja
Sanpera, Anna
Munné, Gerard Anglès
author_facet Rico, Albert
Abellanet-Vidal, Jofre
Kothakonda, Naga Bhavya Teja
Sanpera, Anna
Munné, Gerard Anglès
contents Motivated to understand how entanglement resources can be distributed in quantum networks, we introduce threshold entanglement (TE) states. These are multipartite quantum states whose entanglement across bipartitions forces all marginals of half or less local systems to be (absolutely) separable. First, in contrast to states used for quantum secret sharing, we demonstrate that TE states exist for four and seven qubits. Second, between four and nine qubits, we delimit the average entanglement that TE states must have by combining two semidefinite programming relaxations: (i) lower bounds on the minimal purity of pure state marginals, and (ii) upper bounds on the maximal purity of mixed absolutely separable states. Besides delimiting the existence regions of TE states, our approach independently improves the best known bounds on both of the above problems. Moreover, these improved bounds show that TE states of eight qubits cannot exist. Numerical evidence suggests that TE states accommodate significant amounts of entanglement and magic, which are resources needed for quantum advantage in quantum computing.
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spellingShingle Threshold entanglement sharing: quantum states with absolutely separable marginals
Rico, Albert
Abellanet-Vidal, Jofre
Kothakonda, Naga Bhavya Teja
Sanpera, Anna
Munné, Gerard Anglès
Quantum Physics
Motivated to understand how entanglement resources can be distributed in quantum networks, we introduce threshold entanglement (TE) states. These are multipartite quantum states whose entanglement across bipartitions forces all marginals of half or less local systems to be (absolutely) separable. First, in contrast to states used for quantum secret sharing, we demonstrate that TE states exist for four and seven qubits. Second, between four and nine qubits, we delimit the average entanglement that TE states must have by combining two semidefinite programming relaxations: (i) lower bounds on the minimal purity of pure state marginals, and (ii) upper bounds on the maximal purity of mixed absolutely separable states. Besides delimiting the existence regions of TE states, our approach independently improves the best known bounds on both of the above problems. Moreover, these improved bounds show that TE states of eight qubits cannot exist. Numerical evidence suggests that TE states accommodate significant amounts of entanglement and magic, which are resources needed for quantum advantage in quantum computing.
title Threshold entanglement sharing: quantum states with absolutely separable marginals
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13169