Irreversibility in asymptotic manipulations of entanglement
Quantum Physics
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
We show that the process of entanglement distillation is irreversible by showing that the entanglement cost of a bound entangled state is finite. Such irreversibility remains even if extra pure entanglement is loaned to assist the distillation process.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0102036,
title = {Irreversibility in asymptotic manipulations of entanglement},
author = {G. Vidal and J. I. Cirac},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0102036},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
RevTex, 3 pages, no figures Result on indistillability of PPT states under pure entanglement catalytic LOCC added