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Proc. Waseda Int. Symp. on Fundamental Physics –New Perspectives in Quantum Physics–

Efficient Implementation of Separability Criteria

Daniel K. L. Oi and Matthias Christandl

Entanglement is a valuable resource in quantum information processing and thus its detection and characterization is an important procedure. We review some of the criteria for separability and provide an efficient and physically realizable method by which entanglement may be detected within the “distant labs” paradigm.

URL: http://jpsj.ipap.jp/link?JPSJS/72SC/174/
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJS.72SC.174

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