%0 Journal Article %T Entanglement measures and the Hilbert-Schmidt distance %A Masanao Ozawa %J Physics %D 2000 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00171-7 %X In order to construct a measure of entanglement on the basis of a ``distance'' between two states, it is one of desirable properties that the ``distance'' is nonincreasing under every completely positive trace preserving map. Contrary to a recent claim, this letter shows that the Hilbert-Schmidt distance does not have this property. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0002036v1