Novel Schemes for Directly Measuring Entanglement of General States
Jianming Cai and Wei Song, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190503(2008)
An intrinsic relation between maximally entangled states and entanglement measures is revealed, which plays a role in establishing connections for different entanglement quantifiers. We exploit the basic idea and propose a framework to construct schemes for directly measuring entanglement of general states. In particular, we demonstrate that rank-1 local factorizable projective measurements, which are achievable with only one copy of an entangled state involved at a time in a sequential way, are sufficient to directly determine the concurrence of an arbitrary two-qubit entangled state.