It has been observed by numerous authors that a quantum system being entangled with another one limits its possible entanglement with a third system: this has been dubbed the “monogamous nature of entanglement.” In this paper we present a simple identity which captures the trade off between entanglement and classical correlation, which can be used to derive rigorous monogamy relations. We also prove various other trade offs of a monogamy nature for other entanglement measures and secret and total correlation measures.

• Received 7 October 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.69.022309