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Quantify entanglement by concurrence hierarchy

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v5

Abstract

We define the concurrence hierarchy as d-1 independent invariants under local unitary transformations in d-level quantum system. The first one is the original concurrence defined by Wootters et al in 2-level quantum system and generalized to d-level pure quantum states case. We propose to use this concurrence hierarchy as measurement of entanglement. This measurement does not increase under local quantum operations and classical communication.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0204041,
  title  = {Quantify entanglement by concurrence hierarchy},
  author = {Heng Fan and Keiji Matsumoto and Hiroshi Imai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0204041},
  year   = {2009}
}

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