English
Related papers

Related papers: Universal quantum state merging

200 papers

The initialization of a quantum system into a certain state is a crucial aspect of quantum information science. While a variety of measurement strategies have been developed to characterize how well the system is initialized, for a given…

In this paper, we develop the resource theory of quantum secret key. Operating under the assumption that entangled states with zero distillable key do not exist, we define the key cost of a quantum state, and device. We study its properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Karol Horodecki , Leonard Sikorski , Siddhartha Das , Mark M. Wilde

We analyse the use of entangled states to perform quantum computations non locally among distant nodes in a quantum network. The complexity associated with the generation of multiparticle entangled states is quantified in terms of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. I. Cirac , A. Ekert , S. F. Huelga , C. Macchiavello

Entanglement is a striking feature of quantum mechanics, and it has a key property called unextendibility. In this paper, we present a framework for quantifying and investigating the unextendibility of general bipartite quantum states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Kun Wang , Xin Wang , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum states are the key mathematical objects in quantum mechanics, and entanglement lies at the heart of the nascent fields of quantum information processing and computation. However, there has not been a general, necessary and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Bang-Hai Wang

Quantum information theory is a multidisciplinary field whose objective is to understand what happens when information is stored in the state of a quantum system. Quantum mechanics provides us with a new resource, called quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-25 Nicolas Dutil

A convergent iterative procedure is proposed for the calculation of the relative entropy of entanglement of a given bipartite quantum state. When this state turns out to be non-separable the algorithm provides the corresponding optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jaroslav Rehacek , Zdenek Hradil

We determine the optimal rates of universal quantum codes for entanglement transmission and generation under channel uncertainty. In the simplest scenario the sender and receiver are provided merely with the information that the channel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. Bjelakovic , H. Boche , J. Noetzel

The concept of entanglement fraction is generalized to define coherence fraction of a quantum state. Precisely, it quantifies the proximity of a quantum state to maximally coherent state and it can be used as a measure of coherence.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-21 Sumana Karmakar , Ajoy Sen , Indrani Chattopadhyay , Amit Bhar , Debasis Sarkar

Entanglement, and quantum correlation, are precious resources for quantum technologies implementation based on quantum information science, such as, for instance, quantum communication, quantum computing, and quantum interferometry.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Arthur Vesperini , Ghofrane Bel-Hadj-Aissa , Roberto Franzosi

We relate the problem of irreversibility of entanglement with the recently defined measures of quantum correlation - quantum discord and one-way quantum deficit. We show that the entanglement of formation is always strictly larger than the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-11 Marcio F. Cornelio , Marcos C. de Oliveira , Felipe F. Fanchini

Basing on unified approach to {\it all} kinds of quantum capacities we show that the rate of quantum information transmission is bounded by the maximal attainable rate of coherent information. Moreover, we show that, if for any bipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Michal Horodecki , Pawel Horodecki , Ryszard Horodecki

In quantum information theory, the reliable and effective detection of entanglement is of paramount importance. However, given an unknown state, assessing its entanglement is a challenging task. To attack this problem, we investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Jochen Szangolies , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß

Quantifying entanglement is a work in progress which is important for the active field of quantum information and computation. A measure of bipartite pure state entanglement is proposed here, named entanglement coherence, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Neha Pathania , Tabish Qureshi

Using the concept of non-degenerate Bell inequality, we show that quantum entanglement, the critical resource for various quantum information processing tasks, can be quantified for any unknown quantum states in a semi-device-independent…

We prove that the entanglement cost equals the regularized entanglement of formation for any infinite-dimensional quantum state $\rho_{AB}$ with finite quantum entropy on at least one of the subsystems $A$ or $B$. This generalizes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Hayata Yamasaki , Kohdai Kuroiwa , Patrick Hayden , Ludovico Lami

The traditional perspective in quantum resource theories concerns how to use free operations to convert one resourceful quantum state to another one. For example, a fundamental and well known question in entanglement theory is to determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Stefan Bäuml , Siddhartha Das , Xin Wang , Mark M. Wilde

The optimal coordination rates are determined in three primary settings of multi-user quantum networks, thus characterizing the minimal resources required in order to simulate a joint quantum state among multiple parties. We study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Hosen Nator , Uzi Pereg

Monogamy of entanglement, which limits how entanglement can be shared among multiple parties, is a fundamental feature underpinning the privacy of quantum communication. In this work, we introduce a novel operational framework to quantify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Hongshun Yao , Jingu Xie , Xuanqiang Zhao , Chengkai Zhu , Ranyiliu Chen , Xin Wang

Entanglement is the central resource of quantum information processing and the precise characterization of entangled states is a crucial issue for the development of quantum technologies. This leads to the necessity of a precise,…