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Measuring quantum entanglement without prior state reconstruction

Pawel Horodecki

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0111082

Abstract

It is shown that, despite strong nonlinearity, entanglement of formation of two-qubit state can be measured without prior state reconstruction. Collective measurements on small number of copies are provided that allow to determine quantum concurrence via estimation of only four parameters. It is also pointed out that another entanglement measure based on so called negativity can also be measured in similar way. The result is related to general problem: what kind of information can be extracted efficiently from unknown quantum state ?

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