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arXiv:quant-ph/9909011 · Physical Review Letters

Information, Relative Entropy of Entanglement, and Irreversibility

Leah Henderson, Vlatko Vedral

Published Mar 6, 2000• 99 citations
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Abstract

Previously proposed measures of entanglement, such as entanglement of formation and assistance, are shown to be special cases of the relative entropy of entanglement. The difference between these measures for an ensemble of mixed states is shown to depend on the availability of classical information about particular members of the ensemble. Based on this, relations between relative entropy of entanglement and mutual information are derived.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.84.2263

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As two of the most important entanglement measures---the entanglement of formation and the entanglement of distillation---have so far been limited to bipartite settings, the study of other entanglement measures for multipartite systems appears necessary. Here, connections between two other entanglement measures---the relative entropy of entanglement and the geometric measure of entanglement---are investigated. It is found that for arbitrary pure states the latter gives rise to a lower bound on the former. For certain pure states, some bipartite and some multipartite, this lower bound is saturated, and thus their relative entropy of entanglement can be found analytically in terms of their known geometric measure of entanglement. For certain mixed states, upper bounds on the relative entropy of entanglement are also established. Numerical evidence strongly suggests that these upper bounds are tight, i.e., they are actually the relative entropy of entanglement.
We show how to simplify the computation of the entanglement of formation and the relative entropy of entanglement for states, which are invariant under a group of local symmetries. For several examples of groups we characterize the state spaces, which are invariant under these groups. For specific examples we calculate the entanglement measures. In particular, we derive an explicit formula for the entanglement of formation for $(U\ensuremath{\bigotimes}U)$-invariant states, and we find a counterexample of the additivity conjecture for the relative entropy of entanglement.
The pure quantum entanglement is generalized to the case of mixed compound states to include the classical and quantum encodings as particular cases. The true quantum entanglements are characterized as transpose-CP but not CP maps. The entangled information is introduced as the relative entropy of the mutual and the input state and total information of the entangled states leads to two different types of entropy for a given quantum state: the von Neumann entropy, which is achieved as the supremum of the information over all c-entanglements, and the true quantum entropy, which is achieved at the standard entanglement. The q-capacity, defined as the supremum over all entanglements, doubles the c-capacity in the case of the simple algebra. The conditional q-entropy is positive, and q-information of a quantum channel is additive.
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