Construction of multipartite unextendible product bases and geometric measure of entanglement of positive-partial-transpose entangled states

Abstract

In quantum information theory, it is a fundamental problem to construct multipartite unextendible product bases (UPBs). We show that there exist two families UPBs in Hilbert space ${\mathbb{C}}^2\otimes {\mathbb{C}}^2\otimes {\mathbb{C}}^2\otimes {\mathbb{C}}^2\otimes {\mathbb{C}}^2\otimes {\mathbb{C}}^4$ by merging two different systems of an existing $7$-qubit UPB of size $11$. Moreover, a new family of $7$-qubit positive-partial-transpose (PPT) entangled states of rank $2^7-11$ is constructed. We analytically derive a geometric measure of entanglement of a special PPT entangled states. Also an upper bound are given by two methods.

15 pages, 4 figures