
238 
that 
there 
is  no 
straightforward 
generalization 
of 
the 
Schmidt 
decomposi-
tion 
for 
the 
3-partite 
case, 
Indeed, 
any 
such 
I'lj!), 
and 
IGHZ) 
in 
particular, 
becomes  a separable mix-
ture 
under 
one-party 
reduction
,  while 
the 
W 
state 
does 
not 
- hence 
it 
cannot 
be 
cast 
in such a  "Schmidt form"  by a  choice 
of 
local bases. 
This 
picture 
unfolds  into 
an 
even  more  complex one 
with 
the 
increase  of 
the 
number 
of 
subsystems. 
Distinguishing 
entangled 
and 
separable 
states 
of 
bipartite 
systems re-
mains 
to 
be 
one 
of 
the 
most 
challenging 
open 
problems 
in 
quantum 
infor-
mation 
theory. 
The 
discrimination 
among 
various  genres of 
multipartite 
entanglement 
appears 
a still 
harder 
task. 
In 
experiments, Bell inequalities 
are 
among 
commonly used tools 
to 
detect 
entanglement 
both 
in  bi-
and 
multipartite 
settings.  Yet  Bell inequalities prove 
to 
be 
a  faulty 
detector 
in 
general:  on 
the 
one 
hand
, even 
in 
the 
bipartite 
case, 
there 
are 
entan-
gled 
states 
not 
violating 
the 
inequalities, 
on 
the 
other 
hand 
the 
degree 
of 
violation 
of 
Bell inequalities is 
not 
sufficiently  "monotone"  when going 
from 
"weaker" entangled biseparable 
states 
to 
fully entangled 
multipartite 
ones
6
,
3. 
Consequently, 
it 
is 
not 
an 
adequate 
tool for 
the 
classification of 
various 
multipartite 
entanglement 
patt
erns. 
An 
alternative 
technique,  recognized 
to 
be 
quite 
fruitful 
both 
theoretically  as  well  as  experimentally,  is 
the 
use 
of 
entanglement 
witnesses
1
,5,6,7,8,9,1O. 
While originally7
,9, 
entanglement 
witnesses were de-
fined 
to 
distinguish 
bipartite 
entanglement 
from 
sep
arability, 
they 
proved 
to 
be 
equally useful for 
the 
discrimination 
among 
various 
types 
of 
multi-
partite 
entanglement
ll
,5,6, 
or 
even as simple 
entanglement 
measures
a
. 
Ac-
tually, 
th
ere is  a 
number 
of 
interesting 
relations between specific witnesses 
and 
standard 
entanglement 
measures, 
the 
former providing various useful 
bounds 
for 
the 
latt
er
12. 
In 
the 
present 
paper, 
we 
are 
going 
to 
focus  on  a  special 
method 
of 
constructing 
entanglement 
witness using a physical observable whose spec-
trum 
is 
partially 
known 
10. 
In 
[1] 
we  have discussed 
an 
application of such 
a 
method 
to 
construct 
entanglement 
witness 
out 
of 
the 
Hamiltonian 
of 
a  I-dimensional isotropic Heisenberg model.  We  have 
demonstrated 
the 
aStrictly 
speaking 
every 
witn
ess  W  gives  rise 
to 
a 
pseudo-m
eas
ure 
of 
entanglement 
Ew 
(p) 
=  max{O, -
Tr(W 
p)} 
rather 
than 
a 
true 
measure
,  for  in 
general 
it 
yields  zero 
value for 
some 
e
ntangled 
states.