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arXiv:quant-ph/0010080 · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Bounds on relative entropy of entanglement for multi-party systems

Martin Bodo Plenio, Vlatko Vedral

Published Aug 24, 2001• 76 citations
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Abstract

We present upper and lower bounds to the relative entropy of entanglement of multi-party systems in terms of the bi-partite entanglements of formation and distillation and entropies of various subsystems. We point out implications of our results to the local reversible convertibility of multi-party pure states and discuss their physical basis in terms of deleting information.

DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/34/35/325

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We determine the relative entropy of entanglement of a bipartite mixed state ρABρ_{AB}ρAB​ obtained by tracing out one subsystem of a tripartite Haar-random pure state ∣ψ⟩ABC|ψ\rangle_{ABC}∣ψ⟩ABC​, finding ER(ρAB)=log⁡dAdBmax⁡(dA,dB,dC)+O(1)E_R(ρ_{AB})=\log\frac{d_Ad_B}{\max(d_A,d_B,d_C)}+O(1)ER​(ρAB​)=logmax(dA​,dB​,dC​)dA​dB​​+O(1). Equivalently, the relative entropy of entanglement nearly saturates the smaller of the entanglement of formation EF(ρAB)E_F(ρ_{AB})EF​(ρAB​) and the mutual information I(A:B)I(A:B)I(A:B). The upper bound is achieved by an explicit separable state obtained through one-sided Schmidt dephasing, which is therefore approximately closest.