Detection of quantum steering for the generalized Werner states via artificial neural networks

Abstract

Quantum steering is an important nonlocal resource and has a wide range of applications in quantum information processing. Although a lot of steering criteria have been proposed, it is still very difficult to efficiently detect quantum steering in experiment. Here we employ machine learning techniques to tackle the problem of quantum steering detection in two-qubit system. The quantum steering and un-steering inequalities are combined together, so as to construct quantum steering classifiers for the generalized Werner states via artificial neural networks. More steerable and unsteerable quantum states can be identified by the classifiers proposed here than by the quantum steering inequality or un-steering inequality, which provides a new way to detect steering with only partial information of the given quantum states. We consider two types of artificial neural networks, one is the single-layer perceptron and the other is the multi-layer perceptron. The result shows that the multi-layer perceptron outperforms the single-layer perceptron in terms of accuracy. Compared with the existing quantum steering criteria, our methods do not require the whole information of the quantum state, and the steering of it is detected by using state-independent measurements, so it is easy to realize in experiment.