On the saturated cases of the distillability conjecture
Quantum
Summary
arXiv:2606.03561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The distillability conjecture for two-copy four-by-four Werner states has been an open problem in quantum information for years. We investigate the conditions under which the conjectured inequality becomes an equality. For all known cases where the conjecture has been verified, we characterize the saturation conditions and show that equality forces the matrices $A$ and $B$ to be two-by-two block-diagonal.
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