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General monogamy relation for the entanglement of formation in multiqubit systems

Quantum Physics 2014-09-10 v3

Abstract

We prove exactly that the squared entanglement of formation, which quantifies the bipartite entanglement, obeys a general monogamy inequality in an arbitrary multiqubit mixed state. Based on this kind of exotic monogamy relation, we are able to construct two sets of useful entanglement indicator: the first one can detect all genuine multiqubit entangled states even in the case of the two-qubit concurrence and nn-tangles being zero, while the second one can be calculated via quantum discord and applied to multipartite entanglement dynamics. Moreover, we give a computable and nontrivial lower bound for multiqubit entanglement of formation.

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@article{arxiv.1401.3205,
  title  = {General monogamy relation for the entanglement of formation in multiqubit systems},
  author = {Yan-Kui Bai and Yuan-Fei Xu and Z. D. Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3205},
  year   = {2014}
}

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4.5 pages, 2 figures plus the supplemental material