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Linear monogamy of entanglement in three-qubit systems

Feng Liu, Fei Gao, Qiaoyan Wen

Published Nov 16, 2015• 14 citations
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Abstract

For any three-qubit quantum systems ABC, Oliveira et al. numerically found that both the concurrence and the entanglement of formation (EoF) obey the linear monogamy relations in pure states. They also conjectured that the linear monogamy relations can be saturated when the focus qubit A is maximally entangled with the joint qubits BC. In this work, we prove analytically that both the concurrence and EoF obey linear monogamy relations in an arbitrary three-qubit state. Furthermore, we verify that all three-qubit pure states are maximally entangled in the bipartition A|BC when they saturate the linear monogamy relations. We also study the distribution of the concurrence and EoF. More specifically, when the amount of entanglement between A and B equals to that of A and C, we show that the sum of EoF itself saturates the linear monogamy relation, while the sum of the squared EoF is minimum. Different from EoF, the concurrence and the squared concurrence both saturate the linear monogamy relations when the entanglement between A and B equals to that of A and C.

DOI
10.1038/srep16745

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Abstract The distribution of entanglement in a multiparty system can be described by the principle of monogamy. Monogamy is a fundamental characteristic of entanglement that restricts its distribution among more than two parties. In this work, our aim is to explore how quantum entanglement is distributed in accordance with monogamy relations, which utilize both genuine multipartite entanglement measures and bipartite entanglement measures. Specifically, we treat the source entanglement or the accessible entanglement as genuine multipartite entanglement measures and use the entanglement of formation for bipartite cases. For GHZ class states, we analytically demonstrate that the square of the source entanglement serves as an upper bound for the sum of the squares of the entanglement of formation of the reduced subsystems, with some exceptions in specific non-generic GHZ states. We will also present numerical evidence supporting this result for W-class states. In addition, we also explore the monogamy relationship by using accessible entanglement as an upper bound. Our analysis reveals an opposite but consistent pattern in the behavior of monogamy depending on whether source entanglement or accessible entanglement is used as the upper bound. This pattern emphasizes the dual nature of these two measures.
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