Some remarks on the entanglement number

DOI10.12743/QUANTA.V9I1.140MaRDI QIDQ5024656zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 26 January 2022

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01692

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Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Entanglement measures, concurrencies, separability criteria (81P42) LOCC, teleportation, dense coding, remote state operations, distillation (81P48)

Abstract: Gudder, in a recent paper, defined a candidate entanglement measure which is called the entanglement number. The entanglement number is first defined on pure states and then it extends to mixed states by the convex roof construction. In Gudder's article it was left as an open problem to show that Optimal Pure State Ensembles (OPSE) exist for the convex roof extension of the entanglement number from pure to mixed states. We answer Gudder's question in the affirmative, and therefore we obtain that the entanglement number vanishes only on the separable states. More generally we show that OPSE exist for the convex roof extension of any function that is norm continuous on the pure states of a finite dimensional Hilbert space. Further we prove that the entanglement number is an LOCC monotone, (and thus an entanglement measure), by using a criterion that was developed by Vidal in 2000. We present a simplified proof of Vidal's result where moreover we use an interesting point of view of tree representations for LOCC communications. Lastly, we generalize Gudder's entanglement number by producing a monotonic family of entanglement measures which converge in a natural way to the entropy of entanglement.

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