Bipartite entanglement detection by local generalized measurements

Abstract: Entanglement detection by local measurements, which can possibly be performed by far distant observers, are of particular interest for applications in quantum key distribution and quantum communication. In this paper sufficient conditions for arbitrary dimensional bipartite entanglement detection based on correlation matrices and joint probability distributions of such local measurements are investigated. In particular, their dependence on the nature of the local measurements is explored for typical bipartite quantum states and for measurements involving local orthonormal hermitian operators bases (LOOs) or generalized measurements based on informationally complete positive operator valued measures of the recently introduced $(N,M)$-type ($(N,M)$-POVMs) \cite{NMPOVM}. It is shown that symmetry properties of $(N,M)$-POVMs imply that sufficient conditions for bipartite entanglement detection exhibit peculiar scaling properties relating different equally efficient local entanglement detection scenarios. For correlation-matrix based bipartite local entanglement detection, for example, this has the consequence that LOOs and all informationally complete $(N,M)$-POVMs are equally powerful. With the help of a hit-and-run Monte-Carlo algorithm the effectiveness of local entanglement detection of typical bipartite quantum states is explored numerically. For this purpose Euclidean volume ratios between locally detectable entangled states and all bipartite quantum states are determined.