The binegativity of two qubits

Abstract

We introduce an entanglement-related quantity that we call the binegativity. Based on numerical evidence, we conjecture that the binegativity is an entanglement measure for two-qubit states. The binegativity is compared to the concurrence and negativity, the only known entanglement measures that can be computed analytically for all two-qubit states. The ordering of entangled two-qubit mixed states induced by the binegativity is distinct from the ordering determined by previously known measures, yielding possible new insights into the structure of entangled two-qubit mixed states.

arXiv comment7 pages, 3 figures. Comments welcome. (v3: previous versions contained an erroneous proof claiming that the binegativity is a monotone.)

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