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Polygamy of Distributed Entanglement

Quantum Physics 2009-07-20 v2

Abstract

While quantum entanglement is known to be monogamous (i.e. shared entanglement is restricted in multi-partite settings), here we show that distributed entanglement (or the potential for entanglement) is by nature polygamous. By establishing the concept of one-way unlocalizable entanglement (UE) and investigating its properties, we provide a polygamy inequality of distributed entanglement in tripartite quantum systems of arbitrary dimension. We also provide a polygamy inequality in multi-qubit systems, and several trade offs between UE and other correlation measures.

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@article{arxiv.0903.4413,
  title  = {Polygamy of Distributed Entanglement},
  author = {Francesco Buscemi and Gilad Gour and Jeong San Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4413},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, 1 figure, few typos corrected

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