The use of entanglement witness (EW) for non-full separability and the Bell operator for non-local hidden-variables (LHV) model are analyzed by relating them to the Hilbert-Schmidt (HS) decomposition of n-qubits states and these methods are applied explicitly to some 3 and 4 qubits states. EW for non-full separability (fs) is given by fs parameter minus operator G where the choice of G in the HS decomposition leads to the fs parameter and to the condition for non-separability by using criterions which are different from those used for genuine entanglement. We analyze especially entangled states with probability p mixed with white noise with probability 1-p and find the critical value p(crit.) above which the system is not fully separable. As the choice of EW might not be optimal we add to the analysis of EW explicit construction of fully separable density matrix and find the critical value p below which the system is fully separable. If the two values for p coincide we conclude that this parameter gives the optimal result. Such optimal results are obtained in the present work for some 3 and 4 qubits entangled states mixed with white noise. The use of partial-transpose (PT ) (say relative to qubit A) gives also p value above which the system is not fully separable. The use of EW gives better results (or at least equal) than those obtained by PT .
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