On the characterization of entanglement
On the characterization of entanglement
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DOI:
10.1080/09500340008244048
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发表时间:
1998-07
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
G. Vidal
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作者:
G. Vidal
In the context of N-party composite systems some considerations about entanglement magnitudes defined on the set of their states are made. A minimal set of necessary and sufficient requirements any such magnitude has to fulfil if it is to be non-increasing under the local action of the N classically communicating parties is presented. With the help of some magnitudes satisfying these conditions it is proved that, contrary to what happens in the asymptotic limit, one single measure is not sufficient to quantify the entanglement of pure states of two-party systems, while providing a minimal set of parameters that characterize it completely. It is shown that a magnitude not equivalent to the entropy of entanglement for pure states can be both additive and at most conserved under classically correlated local transformations of the composite system. An alternative characterization of separable states, in terms of the set of classically correlated local transformations, is also presented.