Building an Entanglement Measure on Physical Ground

Arxiv preprint arXiv:0905.0201, 2009

The quantification and classification of quantum entanglement is a very important and still open question of quantum information theory. In this paper, we describe an entanglement measure for multipartite pure states (the minimum of Shannon's entropy of orthogonal measurements). This measure is additive, monotone under LOCC, and coincides with the reduced von Neumann entropy on bipartite states. A method for numerical calculation of this measure by genetic algorithms is also presented. Moreover, the minimization of entropy technique is extended to fermionic states.

Physical Review A, 2000

Physical Review A, 2003

The degree to which a pure quantum state is entangled can be characterized by the distance or angle to the nearest unentangled state. This geometric measure of entanglement, already present in a number of settings ͓A.

2000

We present a measure of quantum entanglement which is capable of quantifying the degree of entanglement of a multi-partite quantum system. This measure, which is based on a generalization of the Schmidt rank of a pure state, is defined on the full state space and is shown to be an entanglement monotone, that is, it cannot increase under local quantum operations with classical communication and under mixing. For a large class of mixed states this measure of entanglement can be calculated exactly, and it provides a detailed classification of mixed states.

Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2001

We introduce new entanglement measures on the set of density operators on tensor product Hilbert spaces. These measures are based on the greatest cross norm on the tensor product of the sets of trace class operators on Hilbert space. We show that they satisfy the basic requirements on entanglement measures discussed in the literature, including convexity, invariance under local unitary operations and non-increase under local quantum operations and classical communication.

Physical Review A, 2004

Bound entangled states are states that are entangled but from which no entanglement can be distilled if all parties are allowed only local operations and classical communication. However, in creating these states one needs nonzero entanglement resources to start with. Here, the entanglement of two distinct multipartite bound entangled states is determined analytically in terms of a geometric measure of entanglement and a related quantity. The results are compared with those for the negativity and the relative entropy of entanglement.

Physical Review A, 2022

Concurrence introduced by Hill and Wootters [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 5022 (1997)], provides an important measure of entanglement for a general pair of qubits that is strictly positive for entangled states and vanishes for all separable states. We present an extension of entanglement measure to general pure continuous variable states of multiple degrees of freedom by generalizing the Lagrange's identity and wedge product framework proposed by Bhaskara and Panigrahi [Quantum Inf. Process. 16, 118 (2017)] for pure discrete variable systems in arbitrary dimensions and extending the concept to mixed continuous variable states. A family of faithful entanglement measures is constructed that admit necessary and sufficient conditions for separability across arbitrary bipartitions presented by Vedral et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2275 (1997)]. The computed entanglement measure in the present approach for general Gaussian states, pair-coherent states and non-Gaussian continuous variable Bell states, matches with known results. We also quantify entanglement of phase randomized squeezed states and superposition of squeezed states. Our results also simplify several results in quantum entanglement theory.

2006

We consider pure quantum states of N qubits and study the genuine N −qubit entanglement that is shared among all the N qubits. We introduce an information-theoretic measure of genuine N -qubit entanglement based on bipartite partitions. When N is an even number, this measure is presented in a simple formula, which depends only on the purities of the partially reduced density matrices. It can be easily computed theoretically and measured experimentally. When N is an odd number, the measure can also be obtained in principle. 03.65.Ud, 73.43.Nq, 89.70.+c The nature of quantum entanglement is a fascinating topic in quantum mechanics since the famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paper [1] in 1935. Recently, much interest has been focused on entanglement in quantum systems containing a large number of particles. On one hand, multipartite entanglement is valuable physical resource in large-scale quantum information processing . On the other hand, multipartite entanglement seems to play an important role in condensed matter physics [4], such as quantum phase transitions (QPT) and high temperature superconductivity . Therefore, how to characterize and quantify multipartite entanglement remains one of the central issues in quantum information theory.

International Journal of Modern Physics B, 2013

The aspects of many particle systems as far as their entanglement is concerned is highlighted. To this end we briefly review the bipartite measures of entanglement and the entanglement of pairs both for systems of distinguishable and indistinguishable particles. The analysis of these quantities in macroscopic systems shows that close to quantum phase transitions, the entanglement of many particles typically dominates that of pairs. This leads to an analysis of a method to construct many-body entanglement measures. SL-invariant measures are a generalization to quantities as the concurrence, and can be obtained with a formalism containing two (actually three) orthogonal antilinear operators. The main drawback of this antilinear framework, namely to measure these quantities in the experiment, is resolved by a formula linking the antilinear formalism to an equivalent linear framework.

arXiv (Cornell University), 2002

The degree to which a pure quantum state is entangled can be characterized by the distance or angle to the nearest unentangled state. This geometric measure of entanglement, already present in a number of settings [A.