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Nonlocality of orthogonal product basis quantum states

Quantum Physics 2015-10-28 v1

Abstract

We study the local indistinguishability of mutually orthogonal product basis quantum states in the high-dimensional quantum system. In the quantum system of CdCd\mathbb{C}^d\otimes\mathbb{C}^d, where dd is odd, Zhang \emph{et al} have constructed d2d^2 orthogonal product basis quantum states which are locally indistinguishable in [Phys. Rev. A. {\bf 90}, 022313(2014)]. We find a subset contains with 6d96d-9 orthogonal product states which are still locally indistinguishable. Then we generalize our method to arbitrary bipartite quantum system CmCn\mathbb{C}^m\otimes\mathbb{C}^n. We present a small set with only 3(m+n)93(m+n)-9 orthogonal product states and prove these states are LOCC indistinguishable. Even though these 3(m+n)93(m+n)-9 product states are LOCC indistinguishable, they can be distinguished by separable measurements. This shows that separable operations are strictly stronger than the local operations and classical communication.

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@article{arxiv.1509.06927,
  title  = {Nonlocality of orthogonal product basis quantum states},
  author = {Yan-Ling Wang and Mao-Sheng Li and Zhu-Jun Zheng and Shao-Ming Fei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.06927},
  year   = {2015}
}

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