# Erratum: Asymptotic entanglement manipulations can be genuinely irreversible. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4260 (2000)]

The presented proof in Ref.  that $`E_D<E_f^{\mathrm{}}`$ (irreversibility) for some Werner states, was based on an invalid lemma of Ref.  (cf. erratum ) (p. 3 of the Ref ) saying that $`E_{PT}`$ is additive for Werner states. Therefore our proof of irreversibility is incorrect. However, the irreversibility holds, as shown recently in Ref. . The authors considered some family of bound entangled states (hence having $`E_D=0`$) and showed that $`E_f^{\mathrm{}}`$ for those states is nonzero.

Other results of the our paper remain valid as they do not make use of the mentioned lemma. They are:

* Proof that $`E_n=\mathrm{log}\varrho ^{PT}`$ is upper bound for distillable entanglement (Lemma 2 of Ref. ). An independent proof of this fact was found earlier by Werner, Benasque, 1998 \[private communication\], see Ref .
* Proof that $`E_n`$ does not increase under trace-preserving PPT superoperators (Appendix of Ref. ).
* Calculation of value of $`E_{PT}`$ for Werner states (eq. (16) of Ref. ).
* Calculation of the measure $`E_n`$ for isotropic state and Werner states (eq. (13) and (15) of Ref. ).