Are the laws of entanglement theory thermodynamical?
Quantum Physics
2009-11-07 v3 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We argue that on its face, entanglement theory satisfies laws equivalent to thermodynamics if the theory can be made reversible by adding certain bound entangled states as a free resource during entanglement manipulation. Subject to plausible assumptions, we prove that this is not the case in general, and discuss the implications of this for the thermodynamics of entanglement.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0207177,
title = {Are the laws of entanglement theory thermodynamical?},
author = {Michal Horodecki and Jonathan Oppenheim and Ryszard Horodecki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0207177},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure, Revtex4; to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett