Thermodynamics and the measure of entanglement
Abstract
We point out formal correspondences between thermodynamics and entanglement. By applying them to previous work, we show that entropy of entanglement is the unique measure of entanglement for pure states.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- November 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.56.R3319
- arXiv:
- arXiv:quant-ph/9610044
- Bibcode:
- 1997PhRvA..56.3319P
- Keywords:
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- 03.65.Bz;
- 65.50.+m;
- 89.70.+c;
- Information theory and communication theory;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, RevTeX