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Phys. Rev. A 56, R3319–R3321 (1997)

Thermodynamics and the measure of entanglement

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Sandu Popescu
Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University, 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge CB3 0EH, United Kingdom

Daniel Rohrlich
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel

Received 29 October 1996; published in the issue dated November 1997

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.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.56.R3319
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.56.R3319
PACS:
03.65.Bz, 65.50.+m, 89.70.+c
 
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