Separability and distillability in composite quantum systems-a primer

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 47-14, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 2481-2499

  Lewenstein, M ^a   Bruss D ^a   Cirac, J I ^b   Kraus, B ^b   Kus M ^c   Samsonowicz, J ^d   Sanpera, A ^a   Tarrach, R ^e  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Poland)

^d WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

COMPOSITE QUANTUM SYSTEM; NONRELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM INFORMATION THEORY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034694462     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: 13623044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500340008232176     Document Type: Article

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