Entanglement for rank-2 mixed states
Quantum Physics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
In a recent paper, Rungta et. al. [Phys. Rev. A, 64, 042315, 2001] introduced a measure of mixed-state entanglement called the I-concurrence for arbitrary pairs of qudits. We find an exact formula for an entanglement measure closely related to the I-concurrence, the I-tangle, for all mixed states of two qudits having no more than two nonzero eigenvalues. We use this formula to provide a tight upper bound for the entanglement of formation for rank-2 mixed states of a qubit and a qudit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0203087,
title = {Entanglement for rank-2 mixed states},
author = {Tobias J. Osborne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0203087},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, uses amsthm and mathrsfs