Entanglement monotones and maximally entangled states in multipartite qubit systems
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We present a method to construct entanglement measures for pure states of multipartite qubit systems. The key element of our approach is an antilinear operator that we call {\em comb} in reference to the {\em hairy-ball theorem}. For qubits (or spin 1/2) the combs are automatically invariant under $SL(2,\CC)$. This implies that the {\em filters} obtained from the combs are entanglement monotones by construction. We give alternative formulae for the concurrence and the 3-tangle as expectation values of certain antilinear operators. As an application we discuss inequivalent types of genuine four-, five- and six-qubit entanglement.
7 pages, revtex4. Talk presented at the Workshop on "Quantum entanglement in physical and information sciences", SNS Pisa, December 14-18, 2004
7 pages, revtex4. Talk presented at the Workshop on "Quantum entanglement in physical and information sciences", SNS Pisa, December 14-18, 2004