Abstract:
The robustness of entanglement(RE) and the generalized robustness of entanglement (GRE) of the W-states are discussed.First,upper and lower bounds for RE and GRE are found,respectively, and some conditions for the upper bound and the lower bound to be equal are obtained.RE and GRE of W-states are then computed under the obtained conditions.As a special case of W-states,it is proved that RE and GRE of a Wλ-state are equal and the related optimal state,generalized optimal state are also found,respectively.In the end,it is proved that the GRE function is lower semi-continuous on the set of all bipartite states.