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Operational multipartite entanglement measures

Quantum Physics 2015-10-14 v2

Abstract

We introduce two operational entanglement measures which are applicable for arbitrary multipartite (pure or mixed) states. One of them characterizes the potentiality of a state to generate other states via local operations assisted by classical communication (LOCC) and the other the simplicity of generating the state at hand. We show how these measures can be generalized to two classes of entanglement measures. Moreover, we compute the new measures for pure few-partite systems and use them to characterize the entanglement contained in a three-qubit state. We identify the GHZ- and the W-state as the most powerful pure three-qubit states regarding state manipulation.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1503.00615,
  title  = {Operational multipartite entanglement measures},
  author = {K. Schwaiger and D. Sauerwein and M. Cuquet and J. I. de Vicente and B. Kraus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.00615},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 pages (including supplemental material), 2 figures

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