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We briefly review our recent work on how to quantify and how to measure the entanglement inscribed into quantum states which evolve under incoherent environment coupling.
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Buchleitner, A., Carvalho, A. & Mintert, F. Measures and dynamics of entanglement. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 159, 47–56 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2008-00692-0
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