Method for measuring the entanglement of formation for arbitrary-dimensional pure states

Ming Li and Shao-Ming Fei

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Submission date: 25. Jan. 2012
published in: Physical review / A, 85 (2012) 1, art-no. 014304 
DOI number (of the published article): 10.1103/PhysRevA.85.014304
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PACS-Numbers: 03.67.-a, 02.20.Hj, 03.65.-w
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Abstract:
Entanglement of formation is an important measure of quantum entanglement. We present an experimental way to measure the entanglement of formation for arbitrary dimensional pure states. The measurement only evolves local quantum mechanical observables.