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. 2015 Jul 6;5:11591. doi: 10.1038/srep11591

Figure 3. The big (green) tetrahedron corresponds to the geometrical illustration of all local maximally mixed bipartite qubit states which can be represented by three real numbers.

Figure 3

The four corners represent the four maximally entangled Bell states which are the only pure states in the picture. Separable states are those inside the (blue) double pyramid where the surfaces correspond to optimal entanglement witnesses. For the Inline graphic system we can interpret that (a) the Hilbert space shrinks with the factor Inline graphic visualized by the small (red) tetrahedron. Since the corners are still outside of the optimal entanglement witnesses (double pyramid), entanglement can be detected via the weak decaying process. Or equivalently, as illustrated in (b) we could also say that weak interactions correspond to imperfect spin measurements blowing up the optimal entanglement witnesses, huge (red) double pyramid.