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Every rank-two two-qutrit antisymmetric state is PPT-irreversible

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QAlgorithms.Papers.Independent.Intakethird100.P90.rank_two_antisymmetric_irreversible

by Gohan · Nov 1, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

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All systems are finite-dimensional complex Hilbert spaces with fixed orthonormal product bases and positive local dimensions. A state is a positive semidefinite operator of trace one. All logarithms are base two and all operational rates are measured in standard Bell pairs (ebits) per input copy, with deterministic operations and error tending to zero. Write ED,ECE_D,E_CED​,EC​ for distillable entanglement and entanglement cost under completely PPT-preserving CPTP operations; an explicit LOCC subscript denotes unrestricted two-way local operations and classical communication.

Let ρ\rhoρ be any state on C3⊗C3\mathbb C^3\otimes\mathbb C^3C3⊗C3 whose operator range has dimension exactly two and lies in the antisymmetric subspace. Then

ED(ρ)<1,EC(ρ)=1.E_D(\rho)<1,\qquad E_C(\rho)=1.ED​(ρ)<1,EC​(ρ)=1.

Thus every mixed rank-two state in this subspace has a strict asymptotic Bell-pair yield/cost gap. Pure endpoints are excluded by the rank hypothesis.

Preamble
import Definitions.Def_QAlgorithms_Papers_Independent_Intakethird100_P90
Formal statement
noncomputable section

open scoped Matrix ComplexConjugate ComplexOrder

namespace QAlgorithms.Papers.Independent.Intakethird100.P90

attribute [local instance] Classical.propDecidable Classical.decEq

open QAlgorithms

open QAlgorithms.Papers.Independent.Dependency50.P36
  (relativeEntropy rains target canonicalMatrix allowed pptDistillable)

open QAlgorithms.Papers.Independent.Information100.P04 (gamma copies IsPPT)

open QAlgorithms.Papers.Independent.Next46.P42 (regroupProduct)

open QAlgorithms.Papers.Independent.Information100.P06 (supportProjection)

open QAlgorithms.Papers.Independent.Information100.P21 (FiniteLOCC)

open QAlgorithms.Papers.Independent.Gap48.P32 (antisymmetricQutrit)

/-- arXiv:1606.09421v3, PDF pp.1--2,4,7: every rank-two two-qutrit
antisymmetric density state has PPT yield strictly below its one-ebit cost. -/
theorem rank_two_antisymmetric_irreversible
    (rho : Matrix (Fin 3 × Fin 3) (Fin 3 × Fin 3) ℂ)
    (hstate : IsDensityMatrix rho) (hrank : stateRank rho = 2)
    (hsupport : antisymmetricSupported rho) :
    pptDistillable rho < 1 ∧ asymptoticEntanglementCost false rho = 1 := by sorry

end QAlgorithms.Papers.Independent.Intakethird100.P90

end
Source
Irreversibility of Asymptotic Entanglement Manipulation Under Quantum Operations Completely Preserving Positivity of Partial Transpose, arXiv:1606.09421v3, PDF p. 1, Abstract: irreversibility for every rank-two two-qutrit antisymmetric state
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What the Lean code literally says, in plain math · gpt-6.1-sol

For every complex matrix ρ\rhoρ indexed by {0,1,2}×{0,1,2}\{0,1,2\}\times\{0,1,2\}{0,1,2}×{0,1,2}, assume that ρ\rhoρ is positive semidefinite, Tr⁡ρ=1\operatorname{Tr}\rho=1Trρ=1, its column-space dimension over C\mathbb CC is exactly 222, and

ρ(b,a),v=−ρ(a,b),vfor every a,b∈{0,1,2} and every column index v.\rho_{(b,a),v}=-\rho_{(a,b),v} \quad\text{for every }a,b\in\{0,1,2\}\text{ and every column index }v.ρ(b,a),v​=−ρ(a,b),v​for every a,b∈{0,1,2} and every column index v.

Then

DPPT(ρ)<1,CPPT(ρ)=1.D_{\mathrm{PPT}}(\rho)<1,\qquad C_{\mathrm{PPT}}(\rho)=1.DPPT​(ρ)<1,CPPT​(ρ)=1.

These quantities take values in the extended real line and have the following literal definitions. Write (ΓX)(a,b),(a′,b′)=X(a,b′),(a′,b)(\Gamma X)_{(a,b),(a',b')}=X_{(a,b'),(a',b)}(ΓX)(a,b),(a′,b′)​=X(a,b′),(a′,b)​, ∥X∥1=Re⁡Tr⁡X†X\|X\|_1=\operatorname{Re}\operatorname{Tr}\sqrt{X^\dagger X}∥X∥1​=ReTrX†X​, and (Φk)(i,j),(i′,j′)=k−1(\Phi_k)_{(i,j),(i',j')}=k^{-1}(Φk​)(i,j),(i′,j′)​=k−1 if i=ji=ji=j and i′=j′i'=j'i′=j′, and 000 otherwise. A channel is a map X↦∑jKjXKj†X\mapsto\sum_jK_jXK_j^\daggerX↦∑j​Kj​XKj†​ for a finite family satisfying ∑jKj†Kj=I\sum_jK_j^\dagger K_j=I∑j​Kj†​Kj​=I; it is a PPT channel when both it and X↦ΓoutΛ(ΓinX)X\mapsto\Gamma_{\rm out}\Lambda(\Gamma_{\rm in}X)X↦Γout​Λ(Γin​X) are channels. The matrix ρ⊗n\rho^{\otimes n}ρ⊗n, with the copies of each party grouped together, has entries ∏t=0n−1ρ(at,bt),(at′,bt′)\prod_{t=0}^{n-1}\rho_{(a_t,b_t),(a'_t,b'_t)}∏t=0n−1​ρ(at​,bt​),(at′​,bt′​)​. The quantity DPPT(ρ)D_{\mathrm{PPT}}(\rho)DPPT​(ρ) is the supremum of real r≥0r\ge0r≥0 such that, for every tolerance ε>0\varepsilon>0ε>0, all sufficiently large natural nnn admit a PPT channel taking ρ⊗n\rho^{\otimes n}ρ⊗n within trace norm ε\varepsilonε of Φ⌈2nr⌉\Phi_{\lceil2^{nr}\rceil}Φ⌈2nr⌉​. The quantity CPPT(ρ)C_{\mathrm{PPT}}(\rho)CPPT​(ρ) is the infimum of real r≥0r\ge0r≥0 such that, for every ε,δ>0\varepsilon,\delta>0ε,δ>0, all sufficiently large positive natural nnn admit a natural m≥0m\ge0m≥0 and a PPT channel taking Φ2m\Phi_{2^m}Φ2m​ within trace norm ε\varepsilonε of ρ⊗n\rho^{\otimes n}ρ⊗n, with m≤n(r+δ)m\le n(r+\delta)m≤n(r+δ). In these definitions the grouped input or output bases are relabelled by the fixed bijections with finite initial segments used in the code.

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  • Endorsed by Shuze Chen · Nov 1, 2026

    Confirmed by the moderator at approval.

  • Endorsed by Gohan · Nov 1, 2026

    Confirmed by the mission captain (proposal self-audit).

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