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Graph states are a key resource for a number of applications in quantum information theory. Due to the inherent noise in noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era devices, it is important to understand the effects noise has on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Aqil Sajjad , Eneet Kaur , Kenneth Goodenough , Don Towsley , Saikat Guha

Here we revisit one of the prototypical tasks for characterizing the structure of noise in quantum devices: estimating every eigenvalue of an $n$-qubit Pauli noise channel to error $\epsilon$. Prior work [14] proved no-go theorems for this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Sitan Chen , Weiyuan Gong

Quantum Entanglement is a fundamentally important resource in Quantum Information Science; however, generating it in practice is plagued by noise and decoherence, limiting its utility. Entanglement distillation and forward error correction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 Vaishnavi L. Addala , Shu Ge , Stefan Krastanov

Quantum communication enables secure information transmission and entanglement distribution, but these tasks are fundamentally limited by the capacities of quantum channels. While quantum repeaters can mitigate losses and noise,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Ozlem Erkilic , Matthew S. Winnel , Aritra Das , Sebastian Kish , Ping Koy Lam , Jie Zhao , Syed M. Assad

We present a two-state practical quantum bit commitment protocol, the security of which is based on the current technological limitations, namely the nonexistence of either stable long-term quantum memories or nondemolition measurements.…

As a measure of the 'closeness' of two quantum states, fidelity plays a fundamental role in quantum information theory. Fidelity estimation protocols try to strike a balance between information gleaned from an experiment, and the efficiency…

Distilling highly entangled quantum states from weaker ones is a process that is crucial for efficient and long-distance quantum communication, and has implications for several other quantum information protocols. We introduce the notion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Tamoghna Das , Asutosh Kumar , Amit Kumar Pal , Namrata Shukla , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

We present optimized distillation schemes for preparing Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states. Our approach relies on training variational quantum circuits with white noise affected GHZ states as inputs. Optimizing for a single iteration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Áron Rozgonyi , Gábor Széchenyi , Orsolya Kálmán , Tamás Kiss

Realizing secure communication between distant parties is one of quantum technology's main goals. Although quantum key distribution promises information-theoretic security for sharing a secret key, the key rate heavily depends on the level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Shin Sun , Kenneth Goodenough , Daniel Bhatti , David Elkouss

We analyze the set of two-qubit states from which a secret key can be extracted by single-copy measurements plus classical processing of the outcomes. We introduce a key distillation protocol and give the corresponding necessary and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Acín , J. Bae , E. Bagan , M. Baig , Ll. Masanes , R. Muñoz-Tapia

Highly entangled quantum states are an ingredient in numerous applications in quantum computing. However, preparing these highly entangled quantum states on currently available quantum computers at high fidelity is limited by ubiquitous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Sebastian Brandhofer , Ilia Polian , Stefanie Barz , Daniel Bhatti

Entanglement distribution is key to the success of secure communication schemes based on quantum mechanics, and there is a strong need for an ultimate architecture able to overcome the limitations of recent proposals such as those based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 Alexander Streltsov , Remigiusz Augusiak , Maciej Demianowicz , Maciej Lewenstein

Entanglement is at the heart of quantum theory and is responsible for various quantum-enabling technologies. In practice, during its preparation, storage, and distribution to the intended recipients, this valuable quantum resource may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Xiao-Xu Fang , Gelo Noel M. Tabia , Kai-Siang Chen , Yeong-Cherng Liang , He Lu

We introduce one-way LOCC protocols for quantum state merging for compound sources, which have asymptotically optimal entanglement as well as classical communication resource costs. For the arbitrarily varying quantum source (AVQS) model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Holger Boche , Gisbert Janßen

Quantum Internet relies on quantum entanglement as a fundamental resource for secure and efficient quantum communication, reshaping data transmission. In this context, entanglement distillation emerges as a crucial process that plays a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Chengkai Zhu , Chenghong Zhu , Xin Wang

Entanglement purification describes a primitive in quantum information processing, where several copies of noisy quantum states are distilled into few copies of nearly-pure states of high quality via local operations and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Lina Vandré , Otfried Gühne

Quantum computers are poised to radically outperform their classical counterparts by manipulating coherent quantum systems. A realistic quantum computer will experience errors due to the environment and imperfect control. When these errors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Joel J. Wallman , Joseph Emerson

Quantum repeaters are essential for achieving long-distance quantum communication due to photon loss, which grows exponentially with the channel distance. Current quantum repeater generations use entanglement distillation protocols, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Iftach Yakar , Michael Ben-Or

Cross-platform verification is the task of comparing the output states produced by different physical platforms using solely local quantum operations and classical communication. While protocols have previously been suggested for this task,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Marcel Hinsche , Marios Ioannou , Sofiene Jerbi , Lorenzo Leone , Jens Eisert , Jose Carrasco

Entanglement distillation is a well-studied problem in quantum information, where one typically starts with $n$ noisy Bell pairs and distills $k$ Bell pairs of higher fidelity. While distilling Bell pairs is the canonical setting, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Narayanan Rengaswamy , Ankur Raina , Nithin Raveendran , Bane Vasić