Solution

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If the Schmidt rank is one, the decomposition is after absorbing its sole coefficient, so the state is a product. Conversely, a product state has coefficient matrix , which has rank one. Therefore a bipartite pure state is entangled exactly when its Schmidt rank is at least two.

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