中国物理B ›› 2021, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (2): 20302-0.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/abc157

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  • 收稿日期:2020-08-15 修回日期:2020-09-14 接受日期:2020-10-15 出版日期:2021-01-18 发布日期:2021-01-18

Quantifying entanglement in terms of an operational way

Deng-Hui Yu(于登辉)1 and Chang-Shui Yu(于长水)1,2,†   

  1. 1 School of Physics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China; 2 DUT-BSU Joint Institute, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
  • Received:2020-08-15 Revised:2020-09-14 Accepted:2020-10-15 Online:2021-01-18 Published:2021-01-18
  • Contact: Corresponding author. E-mail: ycs@dlut.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11775040, 12011530014 and 11375036) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.China (Grant No. DUT20LAB203).

Abstract: We establish entanglement monotones in terms of an operational approach, which is closely connected with the state conversion from pure states to the objective state by the local operations and classical communications. It is shown that any good entanglement quantifier defined on pure states can induce an entanglement monotone for all density matrices. Particularly, we show that our entanglement monotone is the maximal one among all those having the same form for pure states. In some special cases, our proposed entanglement monotones turn to be equivalent to the convex roof construction, which hence gain an operational meaning. Some examples are given to demonstrate different cases.

Key words: quantum entanglement, entanglement measure, quantum resource theory

中图分类号:  (Quantum information)

  • 03.67.-a
03.67.Mn (Entanglement measures, witnesses, and other characterizations) 03.67.Hk (Quantum communication)