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arXiv:quant-ph/0007057 · Physical Review Letters

Entangling Operations and Their Implementation Using a Small Amount of Entanglement

J. I. Cirac, Wolfgang Dür, Barbara Kraus, Maciej Lewenstein

Published Jan 15, 2001• 244 citations
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Abstract

We study when a physical operation can produce entanglement between two systems initially disentangled. The formalism we develop allows us to show that one can perform certain nonlocal operations with unit probability by performing local measurement on states that are weakly entangled.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.86.544

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