Full-separability and bi-separability of qubits using Bell operators, partial transpose, witnesses and explicit (full/bi) separability

Abstract

Using the Hilbert–Schmidt (HS) decomposition we suggest new possible choices of Bell operators and entanglement witnesses (EWs) for [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text]) qubits systems for (full/bi) separability. The latter give upper bounds for (full/bi) separability. Also using the HS decomposition, we find explicitly (full/bi) separable forms for some qubits states which give lower bounds for (full/bi) separability. When the lower bounds and upper bounds coincide it means that the EW is optimal. In the case of full separability, the positive transpose method can sometimes give optimal results. As concrete examples, we give results for the GHZ(3), [Formula: see text] and cluster [Formula: see text] states.