Year: 2001
Type: article
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.
Source: Physical Review Letters
Authors: G. Vidal, J. I. Cirac
Institution: Universität Innsbruck
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: European Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2007422996