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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 140505 (2007) [3 pages]

Observable Entanglement Measure for Mixed Quantum States

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Florian Mintert1 and Andreas Buchleitner2
1Department of Physics, Harvard University, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA
2Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzerstrasse 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany

Received 30 May 2006; published 4 April 2007

We quantify an unknown mixed quantum state’s entanglement by suitable, local parity measurements on its twofold copy. The associated observable qualifies as a generalized entanglement witness.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.140505
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.140505
PACS:
03.67.Mn