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Genuine tripartite entanglement measure for (2 × 2 × n)−dimensional systems Chang-shui Yu and He-shan Song∗ Department of Physics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China (Dated: July 6, 2006) In this paper, we present a new approach to study genuine tripartite entanglement existing in (2 ×2 ×n)−dimensional quantum pure states. By utilizing the approach, we introduce a particular quantity to measure genuine tripartite entanglement. The quantity is shown to be an entanglement monotone and reaches zero for semiseparable (and full separable) states and (2 ×2 ×2)−dimensional W states, hence is a good criterion to measure genuine tripartite entanglement. Furthermore, the formulation for pure states can be conveniently extended to the case of mixed states by utilizing the kronecker product approximation technique. As applications, we give the analytic approximation for weakly mixed states, and study the genuine tripartite entanglement of two given weakly mixed states. PACS numbers: 03.65.Ud, 03.67.Mn I. INTRODUCTION only a quantity to study the separable property of a given quantum system [14,15]; One can also collect the contri- butions of some different entanglements as a whole to Entanglement is a valuable physical resource for many study the correlations between subsystems [16-19]; And quantum information