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Title: Local unitary invariants for N-qubit pure states

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina 86051-990, Parana (Brazil)

The concept of negativity font, a basic unit of multipartite entanglement, is introduced. Transformation properties of determinants of negativity fonts under local unitary (LU) transformations are exploited to obtain relevant N-qubit polynomial invariants and construct entanglement monotones from first principles. It is shown that entanglement monotones that detect the entanglement of specific parts of the composite system may be constructed to distinguish between states with distinct types of entanglement. The structural difference between entanglement monotones for an odd and even number of qubits is brought out.

OSTI ID:
21528619
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 82, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.052340; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English