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Entangled pure state transformations via local operations assisted by finitely many rounds of classical communication

Quantum Physics 2017-02-01 v3

Abstract

We consider generic pure nn-qubit states and a general class of pure states of arbitrary dimensions and arbitrarily many subsystems. We characterize those states which can be reached from some other state via Local Operations assisted by finitely many rounds of Classical Communication (LOCCNLOCC_{\mathbb{N}}). For nn qubits with n>3n>3 we show that this set of states is of measure zero, which implies that the maximally entangled set is generically of full measure if restricted to the practical scenario of LOCCNLOCC_{\mathbb{N}}. Moreover, we identify a class of states for which any LOCCNLOCC_{\mathbb{N}} protocol can be realized via a concatenation of deterministic steps. We show, however, that in general there exist state transformations which require a probabilistic step within the protocol, which highlights the difference between bipartite and multipartite LOCC.

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@article{arxiv.1606.04418,
  title  = {Entangled pure state transformations via local operations assisted by finitely many rounds of classical communication},
  author = {C. Spee and J. I. de Vicente and D. Sauerwein and B. Kraus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.04418},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

5 pages, 1 figure. See also the companion paper arXiv:1607.05145