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Entanglement monotones and maximally entangled states in multipartite qubit systems

Andreas Osterloh, Jens Siewert

abstract: We present a method to construct entanglement measures for pure states of multipartite qubit systems. The key element of our approach is an antilinear operator that we call {\em comb} in reference to the {\em hairy-ball theorem}. For qubits (or spin 1/2) the combs are automatically invariant under $SL(2,\CC)$. This implies that the {\em filters} obtained from the combs are entanglement monotones by construction. We give alternative formulae for the concurrence and the 3-tangle as expectation values of certain antilinear operators. As an application we discuss inequivalent types of genuine four-, five- and six-qubit entanglement.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0506073
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
7 pages, revtex4. Talk presented at the Workshop on "Quantum entanglement in physical and information sciences", SNS Pisa, December 14-18, 2004
doi:
10.1142/S0219749906001980
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0506073
journal_ref:
Int. J. Quant. Inf. 4, 531 (2006)
created:
2005-06-09

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