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Phys. Rev. A 76, 052320 (2007) [5 pages]

Reexamination of entanglement of superpositions

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Gilad Gour*
Institute for Quantum Information Science and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4

Received 9 July 2007; published 21 November 2007

We find tight lower and upper bounds on the entanglement of a superposition of two bipartite states in terms of the entanglement of the two states constituting the superposition. Our upper bound is dramatically tighter than the one presented by Linden et al. [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 100502 (2006)] and our lower bound can be used to provide lower bounds on different measures of entanglement such as the entanglement of formation and the entanglement of subspaces. We also find that in the case in which the two states are one-sided orthogonal, the entanglement of the superposition state can be expressed explicitly in terms of the entanglement of the two states in the superposition.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.76.052320
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.052320
PACS:
03.67.Mn, 03.65.Ud, 03.67.Hk

*gour@math.ucalgary.ca