Christandl's PPT conjecture for entanglement-breaking compositions
Let be linear maps. A map is PPT when both and are completely positive, and it is entanglement breaking when for every . PPT conjecture. The composition of two arbitrary PPT linear maps is entanglement breaking. Equivalently, if are the corresponding Choi states and , then
Christandl posed this conjecture in 2012; it asks whether composing two PPT maps always destroys entanglement, and its resolution remains open.
References
Primary source
Jonas Britz and Monique Laurent, “Semidefinite hierarchies for diagonal unitary invariant bipartite quantum states”, arXiv:2512.06551 (2026).
Additional references
6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2207.02510, arXiv:2002.09614, arXiv:1807.01266, arXiv:1801.05542, arXiv:1710.08475.
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