Local filtering operations on two qubits
Local filtering operations on two qubits
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DOI:
10.1103/physreva.64.010101
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发表时间:
2000-11
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
F. Verstraete;J. Dehaene;B. Moor
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作者:
F. Verstraete;J. Dehaene;B. Moor
We consider one single copy of a mixed state of two qubits and investigate how its entanglement changes under local quantum operations and classical communications (LQCC) of the type ${\ensuremath{\rho}}^{\ensuremath{'}}\ensuremath{\sim}(A\ensuremath{\bigotimes}B)\ensuremath{\rho}(A\ensuremath{\bigotimes}{B)}^{\ifmmode\dagger\else\textdagger\fi{}}.$ We consider a real matrix parametrization of the set of density matrices and show that these LQCC operations correspond to left and right multiplication by a Lorentz matrix, followed by normalization. A constructive way of bringing this matrix into a normal form is derived. This allows us to calculate explicitly the optimal local filtering operations for concentrating entanglement. Furthermore, we give a complete characterization of the mixed states that can be purified arbitrarily close to a Bell state. Finally, we obtain a new way of calculating the entanglement of formation.