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On the Relation Between Strong Subadditivity and Entanglement

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Strong subadditivity is used to improve the triangular inequality for the entropy of tensorproducts by the amount of entanglement.

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    Heide Narnhofer & Walter Thirring

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Narnhofer, H., Thirring, W. On the Relation Between Strong Subadditivity and Entanglement. Journal of Statistical Physics 116, 1189–1197 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOSS.0000037210.51757.65

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