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Entanglement beyond subsystems

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We present a notion of generalized entanglement which goes beyond the conventional definition based on quantum subsystems. This is accomplished by directly defining entanglement as a property of quantum states relative to a distinguished set of observables singled out by Physics. While recovering standard entanglement as a special case, our notion allows for substantially broader generality and flexibility, being applicable, in particular, to situations where existing tools are not directly useful.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0403044,
  title  = {Entanglement beyond subsystems},
  author = {Lorenza Viola and Howard Barnum and Emanuel Knill and Gerardo Ortiz and Rolando Somma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0403044},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages, no figures. Invited contribution to the Proceedings of the Coding Theory and Quantum Computing Workshop, AMS series in Contemporary Mathematics (2004)