Are the laws of entanglement theory thermodynamical?
arXiv:quant-ph/0207177 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.240403
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 assumptions, we prove that this is not the case in general, and discuss the implications of this for the thermodynamics of entanglement.
4 pages, 1 figure, Revtex4; to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett