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Phys. Rev. A 66, 014303 (2002) [2 pages]

Distillable entanglement of multiple copies of Bell states

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Yi-Xin Chen and Dong Yang
Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China

Received 3 April 2002; published 18 July 2002

It is impossible to discriminate four Bell states through local operations and classical communication, if only one copy is provided. To complete this task, two copies will suffice and be necessary. When n copies are provided, we show that the distillable entanglement is exactly n-2.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.66.014303
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.66.014303
PACS:
03.67.Hk, 03.65.Ud