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Entanglement theory

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Bound entanglement and the distillability problem

Bound entanglement is mixed-state quantum entanglement that cannot be distilled into singlets by LOCC, established by the Horodecki 1998 theorem; whether NPT bound entanglement exists remains open.

Entanglement catalysis

Entanglement catalysis (quantum catalysis) is a quantum information phenomenon where an entangled catalyst state enables otherwise impossible transformations, returned unchanged, introduced by Jonathan and Plenio in 1999.

Entanglement distillation

Entanglement distillation, also called entanglement purification, is a quantum information protocol that turns many noisy entangled pairs into fewer near-perfect ones, enabling faithful quantum teleportation through noisy channels.

Entanglement in continuous-variable systems

Entanglement in continuous-variable systems is the nonseparability of bosonic modes such as optical field modes, whose entanglement is carried by continuous quadratures like position and momentum.

Entanglement in many-body quantum systems

Entanglement in many-body quantum systems studies how entanglement is distributed and structured across many interacting particles, using tools like entanglement entropy, the entanglement spectrum, and topological entanglement entropy.

Entanglement measure

An entanglement measure is a function assigning a nonnegative number to a quantum state to quantify its entanglement, vanishing on separable states and normalized on maximally entangled pairs.

Entanglement of formation

The entanglement of formation (EoF) is a measure of quantum entanglement for a bipartite quantum state, defined as the minimum average entanglement over all pure-state ensembles representing the mixed state.

Entanglement witness

An entanglement witness is a Hermitian observable used to certify quantum entanglement. It is a practical alternative to full state tomography, using negative expectation values to prove entanglement.

Fracton

A fracton is a quasiparticle excitation of a quantum many-body system that cannot move freely, giving rise to fracton phases that defy standard topological order.

Frequency-bin entanglement

Frequency-bin entanglement is a form of quantum entanglement where photon pairs share correlations across discrete frequency bins rather than polarization or paths, used for fiber-based quantum key distribution.

Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger state

The Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger state (GHZ state) is a maximally entangled quantum state of three or more qubits whose perfect correlations conflict with local realism, shown in 1989.

LOCC

LOCC, or local operations and classical communication, is the class of operations in quantum information theory where separated parties act locally and exchange classical messages.

Logarithmic negativity

Logarithmic negativity is an entanglement measure for bipartite quantum states, introduced by Vidal and Werner in 2002, computable exactly for any mixed state and upper bounding distillable entanglement.

Measurement-induced phase transition

A measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT) is a nonequilibrium phase transition in monitored quantum many-body systems, identified in random quantum circuits starting in 2018 and 2019.

Negativity (quantum entanglement)

Negativity is an entanglement measure for bipartite quantum states, introduced by G. Vidal and R. F. Werner in 2002 as a computable quantification of the Peres positive-partial-transpose criterion.

Peres–Horodecki criterion

The Peres–Horodecki criterion, also called the positive partial transpose (PPT) criterion, is an entanglement test for bipartite quantum states, proposed by Asher Peres in 1996 and proven by the Horodeckis.

Quantum Fisher information as an entanglement witness

Quantum Fisher information as an entanglement witness is a diagnostic in which the quantum Fisher information, a quantity from quantum metrology, certifies multipartite entanglement in quantum many-body systems.

Schmidt decomposition

The Schmidt decomposition is a theorem of quantum information theory stating that any bipartite pure state can be written with paired orthonormal bases and real, non-negative coefficients.

Separable state

A separable state, or separable quantum state, is a quantum state of a composite system that can be written as a convex combination of product states, containing only classical correlations rather than entanglement.

W state

The W state is a genuinely tripartite-entangled quantum state of three qubits, sharing one excitation equally, and, unlike the GHZ state, keeps entanglement when a qubit is lost.