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Purification via entanglement swapping and conserved entanglement

Quantum Physics 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We investigate the purification of entangled states by local actions using a variant of entanglement swapping. We show that there exists a measure of entanglement which is conserved in this type of purification procedure.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9812013,
  title  = {Purification via entanglement swapping and conserved entanglement},
  author = {S. Bose and V. Vedral and P. L. Knight},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9812013},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, minor changes, to appear in Phys. Rev. A (tent: July 99)

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