Gaussian intrinsic entanglement

TL;DR

This paper introduces Gaussian intrinsic entanglement (GIE), a new measure for quantifying entanglement in bipartite Gaussian systems, which is operationally meaningful and computationally feasible.

Contribution

The paper defines GIE as a new entanglement measure for Gaussian states, demonstrating its properties and computing it explicitly for various states, linking it to secret-key protocols.

Findings

GIE vanishes only on separable states

GIE equals Gaussian Rényi-2 entanglement in studied cases

GIE is monotonic under Gaussian local operations and classical communication

Abstract

We introduce a cryptographically motivated quantifier of entanglement in bipartite Gaussian systems called Gaussian intrinsic entanglement (GIE). The GIE is defined as the optimized mutual information of a Gaussian distribution of outcomes of measurements on parts of a system, conditioned on the outcomes of a measurement on a purifying subsystem. We show that GIE vanishes only on separable states and exhibits monotonicity under Gaussian local trace-preserving operations and classical communication. In the two-mode case we compute GIE for all pure states as well as for several important classes of symmetric and asymmetric mixed states. Surprisingly, in all of these cases, GIE is equal to Gaussian R\'{e}nyi-2 entanglement. As GIE is operationally associated to the secret-key agreement protocol and can be computed for several important classes of states it offers a compromise between computable and physically meaningful entanglement quantifiers.