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Characterizing locally distinguishable orthogonal product states

Quantum Physics 2007-07-25 v1

Abstract

Bennett et al. \cite{BDF+99} identified a set of orthogonal {\em product} states in the 333\otimes 3 Hilbert space such that reliably distinguishing those states requires non-local quantum operations. While more examples have been found for this counter-intuitive ``nonlocality without entanglement'' phenomenon, a complete and computationally verifiable characterization for all such sets of states remains unknown. In this Letter, we give such a characterization for the 333\otimes 3 space.

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@article{arxiv.0707.3581,
  title  = {Characterizing locally distinguishable orthogonal product states},
  author = {Yuan Feng and Yaoyun Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3581},
  year   = {2007}
}
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