Quantifying entanglement in terms of an operational way

Abstract

Quantifying entanglement is one of the most important tasks in the entanglement theory. In this paper, we establish entanglement monotones in terms of an operational approach, which is closely connected with the state conversion from pure states to the objective state by the local operations and classical communications (LOCC). It is shown that any good entanglement quantifier defined on pure states can induce an entanglement monotone for all density matrices. We especially show that our entanglement monotone is the maximal one among all that have the same form for pure states. In some particular cases, our proposed entanglement monotones turned to be equivalent to the convex roof construction, which hence gains an operational meaning. Some examples are given to demonstrate the different cases.

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