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Degree of entanglement for two qubits

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We demonstrate that any pure bipartite state of two qubits may be decomposed into a superposition of a maximally entangled state and an orthogonal factorizable one. Although there are many such decompositions, the weights of the two superposed states are, remarkably, unique. We propose a measure of entanglement based on this decomposition. We also demonstrate that this measure is connected to three measures of entanglement previously set forth: maximal violation of Bell's inequality, concurrence, and two-particle visibility.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0109081,
  title  = {Degree of entanglement for two qubits},
  author = {Ayman F. Abouraddy and Bahaa E. A. Saleh and Alexander V. Sergienko and Malvin C. Teich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0109081},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, no figures

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