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An additive and operational entanglement measure: conditional entanglement of mutual information

Quantum Physics 2008-10-30 v2

Abstract

Based on the monogamy of entanglement, we develop the technique of quantum conditioning to build an {\it additive} entanglement measure: the conditional entanglement of mutual information. Its {\it operational} meaning is elaborated to be the minimal net "flow of qubits" in the process of partial state merging. The result and conclusion can also be generalized to multipartite entanglement cases.

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@article{arxiv.0804.3683,
  title  = {An additive and operational entanglement measure: conditional entanglement of mutual information},
  author = {Dong Yang and Michal Horodecki and Z. D. Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3683},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures