%0 Journal Article
%T Irreversibility in asymptotic manipulations of entanglement
%A G. Vidal
%A J. I. Cirac
%J Physics
%D 2001
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5803
%X We show that the process of entanglement distillation is irreversible by showing that the entanglement cost of a bound entangled state is finite. Such irreversibility remains even if extra pure entanglement is loaned to assist the distillation process.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0102036v2