Abstract
In this paper, we study the bipartite entanglement of spin coherent states in the case of pure and mixed states. By a proper choice of the subsystem spins, the entanglement for large class of quantum systems is investigated. We generalize the result to the case of bipartite mixed states using a simplified expression of concurrence in Wootters' measure of the bipartite entanglement. It is found that in some cases, the maximal entanglement of mixed states in the context of su(2) algebra can be detected. Our observations may have important implications in exploiting these states in quantum information theory. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.