Nonseparability and steerability of two-qubit states from the geometry of steering outcomes

When two qubits, $A$ and $B$, are in an appropriate state, Alice can remotely steer Bob's system $B$ into different ensembles by making different measurements on $A$. This famous phenomenon is known as quantum steering, or Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering. Importantly, quantum steering establishes the correspondence not only between a measurement on $A$ (made by Alice) and an ensemble of $B$ (owned by Bob) but also between each of Alice's measurement outcomes and an unnormalized conditional state of Bob's system. The unnormalized conditional states of $B$ corresponding to all possible measurement outcomes of Alice are called Alice's steering outcomes. We show that, surprisingly, the four-dimensional geometry of Alice's steering outcomes completely determines both the nonseparability of the two-qubit state and its steerability from her side. Consequently, the problem of classifying two-qubit states into nonseparable and steerable classes is equivalent to geometrically classifying certain four-dimensional skewed double cones.

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