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arXiv:quant-ph/0505166 · Physical Review A

Characterization of multiqubit pure-state entanglement

Zeqian Chen, Quanhua Xu

Published Mar 16, 2006• 2 citations
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Abstract

A necessary and sufficient entanglement criterion based on variances of Mermin-Klyshko's Bell operators is proved for multiqubit pure states. Contrary to Bell's inequalities, entangled pure states strictly satisfy a quadratic inequality but product ones can attain the equality under some local unitary transformations, which can be obtained by solving a quadratic maximum problem. This presents a characterization of multiqubit pure-state entanglement.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.73.034306

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