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A Concise Formula for Generalized Two-Qubit Hilbert-Schmidt Separability Probabilities

We report major advances in the research program initiated in "Moment-Based Evidence for Simple Rational-Valued Hilbert-Schmidt Generic 2 x 2 Separability Probabilities" (J. Phys. A, 45, 095305 [2012]). A highly succinct separability probability function P(alpha) is put forth, yielding for generic (9-dimensional) two-rebit systems, P(1/2) = 29/64, (15-dimensional) two-qubit systems, P(1) = 8/33 and (27-dimensional) two-quater(nionic)bit systems, P(2)=26/323. This particular form of P(alpha) was obtained by Qing-Hu Hou and colleagues by applying Zeilberger's algorithm ("creative telescoping") to a fully equivalent--but considerably more complicated--expression containing six 7F6 hypergeometric functions (all with argument 27/64 = (3/4)^3). That hypergeometric form itself had been obtained using systematic, high-accuracy probability-distribution-reconstruction computations. These employed 7,501 determinantal moments of partially transposed four-by-four density matrices, parameterized by alpha = 1/2, 1, 3/2,...,32. From these computations, exact rational-valued separability probabilities were discernible. The (integral/half-integral) sequences of 32 rational values, then, served as input to the Mathematica FindSequenceFunction command, from which the initially obtained hypergeometric form of P(alpha) emerged.