Maximal entanglement versus entropy for mixed quantum states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Wei, Tzu Chieh ^a   Nemoto, Kae ^b   Goldbart, Paul M ^a   Kwiat, Paul G ^a   Munro, William J ^c   Verstraete, Frank ^d  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

MAXIMAL ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM STATES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0038303067     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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