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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 87, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.032317
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- FAPESP
- CNPq through the National Institute for Science and Technology of Quantum Information (INCT-IQ)
- iCORE
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Unlike correlation of classical systems, entanglement of quantum systems cannot be distributed at will: if one system A is maximally entangled with another system B, it cannot be entangled at all with a third system C. This concept, known as the monogamy of entanglement, is manifest when the entanglement of A with a pair BC can be divided as contributions of the entanglement between A and B and A and C, plus a term tau(ABC) involving genuine tripartite entanglement and so expected to be always positive. A very important measure in quantum information theory, the entanglement of formation (EOF), fails to satisfy this last requirement. Here we present the reasons for that and show a set of conditions that an arbitrary pure tripartite state must satisfy for the EOF to become a monogamous measure, i.e., for tau(ABC) >= 0. The relation derived is connected to the discrepancy between quantum and classical correlations, tau(ABC) being negative whenever the quantum correlation prevails over the classical one. This result is employed to elucidate features of the distribution of entanglement during a dynamical evolution. It also helps to relate all monogamous instances of the EOF to the squashed entanglement, an entanglement measure that is always monogamous. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.032317
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