Self-testing of exact entanglement embezzlement
Abstract
We consider bipartite exact entanglement embezzlement with a catalyst state vector in a Hilbert space using unitaries (or more generally, contractions). If is a von Neumann algebra and and are unitaries (or more generally contractions), then such a protocol is of the form , where each and . We show that any such protocol must arise from a unique state on the tensor product of the Cuntz algebra with itself. As a result, we prove that exact entanglement embezzlement is a self-test for a collection of Cuntz isometries for each party and a unique quasi-free state on the Cuntz algebra in the sense of \cite{Iz93}. Moreover, we use modular theory to show that the von Neumann algebra generated by the copy of is the unique separable approximately finite-dimensional Type factor for some , where can be determined by an algebraic condition on the Schmidt coefficients of the state .
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@article{arxiv.2605.22713,
title = {Self-testing of exact entanglement embezzlement},
author = {Samuel J. Harris},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22713},
year = {2026}
}
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31 pages