2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/120007PhD thesis (University of York). The thesis covers in a unified way the material presented in quant-ph/0403073, quant-ph/0502040, quant-ph/0504160, quant-ph/0510035, quant-ph/0512012 and quant-ph/0603283. It includes two large review chapters on entanglement and distillation.192 pagesQuantum Physicstext