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A set of orthogonal quantum states is said to be locally indistinguishable if they cannot be perfectly distinguished by local operations and classical communication (LOCC). Otherwise, the states are locally distinguishable. Interestingly,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Atanu Bhunia , Saronath Halder , Ritabrata Sengupta

Local quantum operations and classical communication (LOCC) put considerable constraints on many quantum information processing tasks such as cloning and discrimination. Surprisingly however, discrimination of any two pure states survives…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhengfeng Ji , Yuan Feng , Mingsheng Ying

We provide a method of designing protocols for implementing multipartite quantum measurements when the parties are restricted to local operations and classical communication (LOCC). For each finite integer number of rounds, $r$, the method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 Scott M. Cohen

In this paper, we consider the problem of discriminating quantum states by local operations and classical communication (LOCC) when an arbitrarily small amount of error is permitted. This paradigm is known as asymptotic state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Eric Chitambar , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Collective operations on a network of spatially-separated quantum systems can be carried out using local quantum (LQ) operations, classical communication (CC) and shared entanglement (SE). Such operations can also be used to communicate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Anthony Chefles , Claire R. Gilson , Stephen M. Barnett

A strong entanglement monotone, which never increases under local operations and classical communications (LOCC), restricts quantum entanglement manipulation more strongly than the usual monotone since the usual one does not increase on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Satoshi Ishizaka

We consider different settings of the task to distinguish pure orthogonal quantum states under local operations and a limited amount of classical communication. In the first setting, the spatially separated parties are allowed to perform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Saronath Halder , Chirag Srivastava

The characterization of transformations among entangled pure states via local operations assisted by classical communication (LOCC) is a crucial problem in quantum information theory for both theoretical and practical reasons. As LOCC has a…

A key result in entanglement theory is that the addition of a catalyst dramatically enlarges the set of possible state transformations via local operations and classical communication (LOCC). However, it remains unclear what is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Patryk Lipka-Bartosik , Jessica Bavaresco , Nicolas Brunner , Pavel Sekatski

We explore the intersection of studies in quantum error correction and quantum local operations and classical communication (LOCC). We consider one-way LOCC measurement protocols as quantum channels and investigate their error correction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 David Kribs , Comfort Mintah , Michael Nathanson , Rajesh Pereira

Ensembles containing orthogonal product states are found to be indistinguishable under local operations and classical communication (LOCC), thereby showing irreversibility in the preparation and distinguishing processes, which is commonly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-10 Shiladitya Mal , Aditi Sen De

We consider deeply the relation between the orthogonality and the distinguishability of a set of arbitrary states (including multi-partite states). It is shown that if a set of arbitrary states can be distinguished by local operations and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ping Xing Chen , Cheng Zu Li

A set of orthogonal product states is said to exhibit "quantum nonlocality without entanglement" if it is locally indistinguishable, i.e. no sequence of local operations and classical communication (LOCC) can perfectly discriminate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Atanu Bhunia , Saronath Halder , Preeti Parashar , Ritabrata Sengupta

Distributed quantum information processing protocols such as quantum entanglement distillation and quantum state discrimination rely on local operations and classical communications (LOCC). Existing LOCC-based protocols typically assume the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-20 Hari Hara Suthan Chittoor , Osvaldo Simeone

Much of the theory of entanglement concerns the transformations that are possible to a state under local operations with classical communication (LOCC); however, this set of operations is complicated and difficult to describe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-24 Ognyan Oreshkov , Todd A. Brun

The use of coarse graining to connect physical and information theoretic entropies has recently been given a precise formulation in terms of ``observational entropy'', describing entropy for observers with respect to a measurement. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Leonardo Rossetti , Stefano Mancini , Andreas Winter , Joseph Schindler

The paper studies unambiguous discrimination of Fermionic states through local operations and classical communication (LOCC). In the task of unambiguous discrimination, no error is tolerated but an inconclusive result is allowed. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-22 Matteo Lugli , Paolo Perinotti , Alessandro Tosini

Understanding multipartite entanglement is vital, as it underpins a wide range of phenomena across physics. The study of transformations of states via Local Operations assisted by Classical Communication (LOCC) allows one to quantitatively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Antoine Neven , David Gunn , Martin Hebenstreit , Barbara Kraus

The fact that not all quantum observables are jointly measurable is one of the major differences between quantum and classical theory. In the former, non-commuting observables can only be simultaneously measured with limited precision. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Gilles Pütz , Tomer Barnea , Nicolas Gisin , Anthony Martin

We compare three different characterizations of the globalness of bipartite unitary operations, namely, delocalization power, entanglement cost, and entangling power, to investigate global properties of unitary operations. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 Akihito Soeda , Mio Murao