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Entanglement distillation is a key component of modular quantum computing and long-range quantum communications. However, this powerful tool to reduce noise in entangled states is difficult to realize in practice for two main reasons.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Vikesh Siddhu , Erick Winston , David C. McKay , Ali Javadi-Abhari

We present a way for the entanglement distillation of genuine mixed state. Different from the conventional mixed state in entanglement purification protocol, each components of the mixed state in our protocol is a less-entangled state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-15 Yu-Bo Sheng , Lan Zhou

Near-term and early fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures are expected to exhibit highly non-uniform error rates. In particular, local operations within a chip can be substantially more reliable than operations connecting different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Elisa Bäumer Marty

Atomic ensembles are effective memory nodes for quantum communication network due to the long coherence time and the collective enhancement effect for the nonlinear interaction between an ensemble and a photon. Here we investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-02 Tao Li , Guo-Jian Yang , Fu-Guo Deng

Quantum entanglement distillation is a process to extract a small number of high-fidelity entanglement from a large number of low-fidelity ones, which in essence is to trade yield (or survival rate) for fidelity. Among existing distillation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Stuart Pelletier , Ruozhou Yu , George Rouskas , Jianqing Liu

Even though entanglement is very vulnerable to interactions with the environment, it can be created by purely dissipative processes. Yet, the attainable degree of entanglement is profoundly limited in the presence of noise sources. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Karl Gerd H. Vollbrecht , Christine A. Muschik , J. Ignacio Cirac

Distributed quantum computing allows the modular construction of large-scale quantum computers and enables new protocols for blind quantum computation. However, such applications in the large-scale, fault-tolerant regime place stringent…

The potential impact of future quantum networks hinges on high-quality quantum entanglement shared between network nodes. Unavoidable real-world imperfections necessitate means to improve remote entanglement by local quantum operations.…

We consider distillation of entanglement from two qubit states which are mixtures of three mutually orthogonal states: two pure entangled states and one pure product state. We distill entanglement from such states by projecting n copies of…

Entanglement distillation is an indispensable ingredient in extended quantum communication networks. Distillation protocols are necessarily non-deterministic and require advanced experimental techniques such as noiseless amplification.…

The notion of distillable entanglement is one of the fundamental concepts of quantum information theory. Unfortunately, there is an apparent mismatch between the intuitive and rigorous definitions of distillable entanglement. To be precise,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric M. Rains

Indefinite causal order is an evolving field with potential involvement in quantum technologies. Here we propose and study one possible scenario of practical application in quantum communication: a compound entanglement distillation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Zai Zuo , Michael Hanks , M. S. Kim

We present a security proof for establishing private entanglement by means of recurrence-type entanglement distillation protocols over noisy quantum channels. We consider protocols where the local devices are imperfect, and show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 Alexander Pirker , Vedran Dunjko , Wolfgang Dür , Hans J. Briegel

We present a practical entanglement distillation protocol (EDP) with linear optics for a genuine mixed state. Each components of the genuine mixed state is a pure less-entangled state. After successfully performing this EDP, we can obtain a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-16 Yu-Bo Sheng , Lan Zhou , Xing-Fu Wang

Entanglement distillation is a procedure for extracting from one or more pairs of entangled qubits a smaller number of pairs with a higher degree of entanglement that is essential for many applications in quantum information science.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-26 Taehyun Kim , Franco N. C. Wong

Entanglement distribution between distant parties is an essential component to most quantum communication protocols. Unfortunately, decoherence effects such as phase noise in optical fibers are known to demolish entanglement. Iterative…

High-fidelity quantum entanglement enables key quantum networking capabilities such as secure communication and distributed quantum computing, but long-distance entanglement distribution is limited by noise and loss. Entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Andi Gu , Lorenzo Leone , Kenneth Goodenough , Sumeet Khatri

High-fidelity entanglement shared between distant quantum systems is an essential resource for quantum communication and computation. Entanglement distillation addresses this need by converting multiple noisy Bell pairs into fewer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Shoham Jacoby , Rotem Arnon-Friedman , Serge Rosenblum

We construct new entanglement distillation protocols by interpolating between the recurrence and hashing protocols. This leads to asymptotic two-way distillation protocols, resulting in an improvement of the distillation rate for all mixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Karl Gerd H. Vollbrecht , Frank Verstraete

We propose a method to directly recover the degree of entanglement distributed by entanglement swapping in the presence of noise. Our approach introduces a reversing operation that probabilistically undoes the effect of amplitude damping or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Sewon Jeong , Shrobona Bagchi , Jaehak Lee , Hyang-Tag Lim , Yong-Su Kim , Taeyoung Choi , Seung-Woo Lee