Multiple-copy entanglement transformation and entanglement catalysis

We prove that any multiple-copy entanglement transformation fS. Bandyopadhyay, V. Roychowdhury, and U. Sen, Phys. Rev. A 65, 052315 s2002dg can be implemented by a suitable entanglement-assisted local transformation fD. Jonathan and M. B. Plenio, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3566 s1999dg. Furthermore, we show that the combination of multiple-copy entanglement transformation and the entanglement-assisted one is still equivalent to the pure entanglement-assisted one. The mathematical structure of multiple-copy entanglement transformations then is carefully investigated. Many interesting properties of multiple-copy entanglement transformations are presented, which exactly coincide with those satisfied by the entanglement-assisted ones. Most interestingly, we show that an arbitrarily large number of copies of state should be considered in multiple-copy entanglement transformations.