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Phys. Rev. A 72, 012336 (2005) [4 pages]

Concurrence of quasipure quantum states

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Florian Mintert and Andreas Buchleitner
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzerstr. 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany

Received 29 July 2004; published 27 July 2005

We derive an analytic approximation for the concurrence of weakly mixed bipartite quantum states—typical objects in state of the art experiments. This approximation is shown to be a lower bound of the concurrence of arbitrary states.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.012336
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.012336
PACS:
03.67.Mn, 03.65.Ud