Superactivation of Bound Entanglement
Author(s) -
Peter W. Shor,
John A. Smolin,
Ashish V. Thapliyal
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.90.107901
Subject(s) - quantum entanglement , upper and lower bounds , superadditivity , bound state , physics , state (computer science) , multipartite entanglement , squashed entanglement , quantum mechanics , theoretical physics , computer science , mathematics , quantum , algorithm , mathematical economics , mathematical analysis
We show that, in a multi-party setting, two non-distillable (bound-entangled)states tensored together can make a distillable state. This is an example oftrue superadditivity of distillable entanglement. We also show that unlockablebound-entangled states cannot be asymptotically unentangled, providing thefirst proof that some states are truly bound-entangled in the sense of beingboth non-distillable and non-separable asymptotically.
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