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Minimum Entangling Power is Close to Its Maximum

Quantum Physics 2018-12-12 v2

Abstract

Given a quantum gate UU acting on a bipartite quantum system, its maximum (average, minimum) entangling power is the maximum (average, minimum) entanglement generation with respect to certain entanglement measure when the inputs are restricted to be product states. In this paper, we mainly focus on the 'weakest' one, i.e., the minimum entangling power, among all these entangling powers. We show that, by choosing von Neumann entropy of reduced density operator or Schmidt rank as entanglement measure, even the 'weakest' entangling power is generically very close to its maximal possible entanglement generation. In other words, maximum, average and minimum entangling powers are generically close. We then study minimum entangling power with respect to other Lipschitiz-continuous entanglement measures and generalize our results to multipartite quantum systems. As a straightforward application, a random quantum gate will almost surely be an intrinsically fault-tolerant entangling device that will always transform every low-entangled state to near-maximally entangled state.

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@article{arxiv.1210.1296,
  title  = {Minimum Entangling Power is Close to Its Maximum},
  author = {Jianxin Chen and Zhengfeng Ji and David W Kribs and Bei Zeng and Fang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.1296},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

26 pages, subsection III.A.2 revised, authors list updated, comments are welcome

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