Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2000-05-26
Phys. Rev. A 62, 062314 (2000)
Physics
Quantum Physics
12 pages, 1 figure; replaced with revised version; terminology adapted to earlier work; reference added; results unchanged
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.62.062314
Invertible local transformations of a multipartite system are used to define equivalence classes in the set of entangled states. This classification concerns the entanglement properties of a single copy of the state. Accordingly, we say that two states have the same kind of entanglement if both of them can be obtained from the other by means of local operations and classical communcication (LOCC) with nonzero probability. When applied to pure states of a three-qubit system, this approach reveals the existence of two inequivalent kinds of genuine tripartite entanglement, for which the GHZ state and a W state appear as remarkable representatives. In particular, we show that the W state retains maximally bipartite entanglement when any one of the three qubits is traced out. We generalize our results both to the case of higher dimensional subsystems and also to more than three subsystems, for all of which we show that, typically, two randomly chosen pure states cannot be converted into each other by means of LOCC, not even with a small probability of success.
Cirac Juan Ignacio
Dür Wolfgang
Vidal German
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