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arXiv:quant-ph/0306032 · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Accessibility of physical states and non-uniqueness of entanglement measure

Fumiaki Morikoshi, Marcelo França Santos, Vlatko Vedral

Published May 19, 2004• 6 citations
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Abstract

Ordering physical states is the key to quantifying some physical property of the states uniquely. Bipartite pure entangled states are totally ordered under local operations and classical communication (LOCC) in the asymptotic limit and uniquely quantified by the well-known entropy of entanglement. However, we show that mixed entangled states are partially ordered under LOCC even in the asymptotic limit. Therefore, non-uniqueness of entanglement measure is understood on the basis of an operational notion of asymptotic convertibility.

DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/37/22/013

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We investigate the entanglement of bipartite systems from an operational point of view. Main emphasis is put on bipartite pure states in the single copy regime. First, we present an operational characterization of bipartite pure state entanglement, viewing the state as a multipartite state. Then, we investigate the properties and relations of two classes of operational bipartite and multipartite entanglement measures, the so-called source and the accessible entanglement. The former measures how easy it is to generate a given state via local operations and classical communication (LOCC) from some other state, whereas the latter measures the potentiality of a state to be convertible to other states via LOCC. We investigate which parameter regime is physically available, i.e. for which values of these measures does there exist a bipartite pure state. Moreover, we determine, given some state, which parameter regime can be accessed by it and from which parameter regime it can be accessed. We show that this regime can be determined analytically using the Positivstellensatz. We compute the boundaries of these sets and the boundaries of the corresponding source and accessible sets. Furthermore, we relate these results to other entanglement measures and compare their behaviors.
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Local operations assisted with classical communication (LOCC) and/or its stochastic generalization induce an ordering relation among bipartite entangled states based on their inter-convertibility. This, in multipartite scenario, leads to different classes of entanglement where states within a class can be inter-converted but conversion among different classes is not possible, and thus results in incomparable multipartite entangled resources. Here we show that a bona-fide ordering relation, under the operational paradigm of LOCC, can be established between two such incomparable states based on their performance in some operational task. Entanglement assisted local state discrimination provides one such platform for resource comparison and the notion of genuinely nonlocal product states becomes quite pertinent in this regard. We provide the detailed framework along with explicit examples exhibiting how incomparable resources can be put into well defined ordered relation.
Entanglement theory is formulated as a quantum resource theory in which the free operations are local operations and classical communication (LOCC). This defines a partial order among bipartite pure states that makes it possible to identify a maximally entangled state, which turns out to be the most relevant state in applications. However, the situation changes drastically in the multipartite regime. Not only do there exist inequivalent forms of entanglement forbidding the existence of a unique maximally entangled state, but recent results have shown that LOCC induces a trivial ordering: almost all pure entangled multipartite states are incomparable (i.e., LOCC transformations among them are almost never possible). In order to cope with this problem we consider alternative resource theories in which we relax the class of LOCC to operations that do not create entanglement. We consider two possible theories depending on whether resources correspond to multipartite entangled or genuinely multipartite entangled (GME) states and we show that they are both nontrivial: no inequivalent forms of entanglement exist in them and they induce a meaningful partial order (i.e., every pure state is transformable to more weakly entangled pure states). Moreover, we prove that the resource theory of GME that we formulate here has a unique maximally entangled state, the generalized GHZ state, which can be transformed to any other state by the allowed free operations.