Concentrating partial entanglement by local operations
Concentrating partial entanglement by local operations
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DOI:
10.1103/physreva.53.2046
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发表时间:
1996-04-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Schumacher, B
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作者:
Bennett, CH;Bernstein, HJ;Schumacher, B
If two separated observers are supplied with entanglement, in the form of n pairs of particles in identical partly entangled pure states, one member of each pair being given to each observer, they can, by local actions of each observer, concentrate this entanglement into a smaller number of maximally entangled pairs of particles, for example, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen singlets, similarly shared between the two observers. The concentration process asymptotically conserves entropy of entanglement-the von Neumann entropy of the partial density matrix seen by either observer-with the yield of singlets approaching, for large n, the base-2 entropy of entanglement of the initial partly entangled pure state. Conversely, any pure or mixed entangled state of two systems can be produced by two classically communicating separated observers, drawing on a supply of singlets as their sole source of entanglement.