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Quantum cryptographic resource distillation and entanglement

Quantum Physics 2021-10-27 v1

Abstract

We look into multipartite quantum states on which quantum cryptographic protocols including quantum key distribution and quantum secret sharing can be perfectly performed, and define the quantum cryptographic resource distillable rate as the asymptotic rate at which such multipartite state can be distilled from a given multipartite state. Investigating several relations between entanglement and the rate, we show that there exists a multipartite bound entangled state whose quantum cryptographic resource distillable rate is strictly positive, that is, there exists a multipartite entangled state which is not distillable, but can be useful for quantum cryptography such as quantum key distribution and quantum secret sharing.

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@article{arxiv.2110.13707,
  title  = {Quantum cryptographic resource distillation and entanglement},
  author = {Minjin Choi and Soojoon Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.13707},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures

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