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arXiv:quant-ph/0109126 · Physical Review Letters

Conditions for the Local Manipulation of Gaussian States

Jens Eisert, Martin Bodo Plenio

Published Aug 6, 2002• 38 citations
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Abstract

We present a general necessary and sufficient criterion for the possibility of a state transformation from one mixed Gaussian state to another of a bipartite continuous-variable system with two modes. The class of operations that will be considered is the set of local Gaussian completely positive trace-preserving maps.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.89.097901

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