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Distillability, Bell inequalities and multiparticle bound entanglement

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We study the relation between violation of Bell inequalities and distillability properties of quantum states. Recently, D\"ur has shown that there are some multiparticle bound entangled states, non-separable and non-distillable, that violate a Bell inequality. We prove that for all the states violating this inequality there exist at least one splitting of the parties into two groups such that some pure-state entanglement can be distilled, obtaining a connection between Bell inequalities and bipartite distillable entanglement.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0108029,
  title  = {Distillability, Bell inequalities and multiparticle bound entanglement},
  author = {A. Acin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0108029},
  year   = {2009}
}

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3 pages, REVTEX