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Michał Horodecki1, Jonathan Oppenheim, Ryszard Horodecki
1Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Gdańsk, Poland.
Abstract:
We argue that on its face, entanglement theory satisfies laws equivalent to thermodynamics if the theory can be made reversible by adding certain bound entangled states as a free resource during entanglement manipulation. Subject to plausible conjectures, we prove that this is not the case in general, and discuss the implications of this for the thermodynamics of entanglement.
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