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Purification and correlated measurements of bipartite mixed states

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We prove that all purifications of a non-factorable state (i.e., the state which cannot be expressed in a form ρAB=ρAρB\rho_{AB}=\rho_A\otimes\rho_B) are entangled. We also show that for any bipartite state there exists a pair of measurements which are correlated on this state if and only if the state is non-factorable.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0112015,
  title  = {Purification and correlated measurements of bipartite mixed states},
  author = {Jan Bouda and Vladimir Buzek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0112015},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 revtex pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. A