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Optimal supplier of single-error-type entanglement via coherent-state transmission

Quantum Physics 2022-07-13 v1

Abstract

Compared with entanglement with multiple types of noise, entanglement including only one type of error is a favorable fundamental resource not only for quantum communication but also for distributed quantum computation. We consider protocol that presents single-error-type entanglement for distant qubits via coherent-state transmission over a lossy channel. This protocol is regarded as a subroutine to serve entanglement for larger protocol to yield a final output, such as ebits or pbits. In this paper, we provide a subroutine protocol which achieves the global optimal for typical jointly convex yield functions monotonically non-decreasing with respect to the singlet fraction, such as an arbitrary convex function of a singlet fraction and two-way distillable entanglement/key. Entanglement generation based on remote non-destructive parity measurement protocol [K. Azuma, H. Takeda, M. Koashi, and N. Imoto, Phys. Rev. A 85, 062309 (2012)] is identified as such an optimal subroutine.

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@article{arxiv.2203.17116,
  title  = {Optimal supplier of single-error-type entanglement via coherent-state transmission},
  author = {Koji Azuma and Nobuyuki Imoto and Masato Koashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.17116},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages, 6 figures