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arXiv:quant-ph/0105017 · Journal of Mathematical Physics

The uniqueness theorem for entanglement measures

Matthew J. Donald, Michał Horodecki, Oliver Rudolph

Published Sep 1, 2002• 204 citations
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Abstract

We explore and develop the mathematics of the theory of entanglement measures. After a careful review and analysis of definitions, of preliminary results, and of connections between conditions on entanglement measures, we prove a sharpened version of a uniqueness theorem which gives necessary and sufficient conditions for an entanglement measure to coincide with the reduced von Neumann entropy on pure states. We also prove several versions of a theorem on extreme entanglement measures in the case of mixed states. We analyze properties of the asymptotic regularization of entanglement measures proving, for example, convexity for the entanglement cost and for the regularized relative entropy of entangle ment.

DOI
10.1063/1.1495917

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