Operational criterion and constructive checks for the separability of low-rank density matrices

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1-10

  Horodecki, Paweł ^a,b   Lewenstein, Maciej ^a   Vidal, Guifré ^c   Cirac, Ignacio ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

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