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How many measurements must a man take before he knows entanglement

Jun O. S. Yin, S. J. van Enk

Published Nov 11, 2010• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose one and a half criteria for determining how many measurements are needed to quantify entanglement reliably. We base these criteria on Bayesian analysis of measurement results, and apply our methods to four-qubit entanglement, but generalizations to more qubits are straightforward.

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