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Measuring Quantum Entanglement

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Non-locality and Modality

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I describe recent work in the field of quantum information theory on understanding and particularly quantifying quantum entanglement. This raises possible new directions for the interpretation of the quantum non-locality manifested in Bell’s inequalities.

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    Leah Henderson

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    Jeremy Butterfield

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Henderson, L. (2002). Measuring Quantum Entanglement. In: Placek, T., Butterfield, J. (eds) Non-locality and Modality. NATO Science Series, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0385-8_9

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