arXiv:physics/0701116

A General Scheme of Entanglement

Elemér Elad Rosinger

Published Jan 10, 2007• 8 citations

Abstract

Entanglement is a well known fundamental resource in quantum information. Here the following question is addressed : which are the deeper roots of entanglement that may help in its better understanding and use ? The answer is that one can reproduce the phenomenon of entanglement in a far more general and simple way, a way that goes much beyond the usual one which is limited to the framework of tensor products of vector spaces. In this general approach to entanglement presented here - and much unlike in the particular setup of tensor products of vector spaces - the spaces involved can be rather arbitrary sets, just as in the case of Cartesian products. In particular, they need not even have any algebraic structure. Thus they do not have to be vector spaces, groups or even semigroups.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0701116

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