Irreversibility in Asymptotic Manipulations of Entanglement
- 18 June 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 86 (25) , 5803-5806
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.5803
Abstract
We show that the process of entanglement distillation is irreversible by showing that the entanglement cost of a bound entangled state is finite. Such irreversibility remains even if extra pure entanglement is loaned to assist the distillation process.Keywords
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