Analytically solvable two-qubit entanglement monotone

Abstract

A so-called quasientanglement measure was obtained [J. Zhang et al., Phys. Rev. A 73, 022319 (2006)] by extending Jaeger's Minkowskian norm entanglement measure to general multipartite mixed states. The obtained quasientanglement measure has good properties, but it is still left open whether it is nonincreasing under general local operations and classical communications (LOCC). We show that the obtained quasientanglement measure is indeed nonincreasing on average under LOCC at least for two-qubit states. Thus, it is a good candidate for the two-qubit entanglement monotone. Further, it is shown that this entanglement measure is less than the concurrence for a large class of mixed entangled states.