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Classical computation relies heavily on information manipulation. Each component of a hardware needs to communicate with others, and this is done by encoding information into strings of bits and application of logical operations. When…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Eduardo K. Soares

Multipartite entanglement is an indispensable resource in quantum communication and computation, however, it is a challenging task to faithfully quantify this global property of multipartite quantum systems. In this work, we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Xiaozhen Ge , Lijun Liu , Shuming Cheng

Entanglement-assisted discrimination of orthogonal quantum states exhibiting quantum nonlocality is a frontier topic in quantum information theory. In this paper, we investigate the role of multipartite entanglement and develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Ziying Hou , Huaqi Zhou , Limin Gao

We construct a protocol for extracting distributed one-qubit quantum information encoded in a stabilizer code of multiple qubits, only by single-qubit local operations and classical communication (LOCC) without global operations or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Koki Shiraishi , Hayata Yamasaki , Mio Murao

Every measurement that can be implemented by local quantum operations and classical communication (LOCC) using an infinite number of rounds is the limit of a sequence of measurements each of which requires only a finite number of rounds.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-14 Scott M. Cohen

Quantum entanglement cannot be used to achieve direct communication between remote parties, but it can reduce the communication needed for some problems. Let each of k parties hold some partial input data to some fixed k-variable function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Wim van Dam , Peter Hoyer , Alain Tapp

Stochastic local operations and classical communication (SLOCC), also called local filtering operations, are a convenient, useful set of quantum operations in grasping essential properties of entanglement. We give a quick overview about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akimasa Miyake

Efficiently entangling pairs of qubits is essential to fully harness the power of quantum computing. Here, we devise an exact protocol that simultaneously entangles arbitrary pairs of qubits on a trapped-ion quantum computer. The protocol…

Distributed quantum computing (DQC) provides a promising route toward scalable quantum computation, where entanglement-assisted LOCC and circuit knitting represent two complementary approaches. The former deterministically realizes nonlocal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Shao-Hua Hu , Po-Sung Liu , Jun-Yi Wu

Quantum information technology has the potential to revolutionize computing, communications, and security. To fully realize its potential, quantum processors with millions of qubits are needed, which is still far from being accomplished.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Nicholas Skjellum , Mohamed Shaban , Muhammad Ismail

We consider the problem of transmitting classical and quantum information reliably over an entanglement-assisted quantum channel. Our main result is a capacity theorem that gives a three-dimensional achievable rate region. Points in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-23 Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Mark M. Wilde

Coordination in distributed systems is often hampered by communication latency, which degrades performance. Quantum entanglement offers fundamentally stronger correlations than classically achievable without communication. Crucially, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Francisco Ferreira da Silva , Stephanie Wehner

We show that quantum entanglement can be used as a substitute for communication when the goal is to compute a function whose input data is distributed among remote parties. Specifically, we show that, for a particular function among three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Richard Cleve , Harry Buhrman

Entanglement bits or ``ebits'' have been proposed as a quantitative measure of a fundamental resource in quantum information processing. For such an interpretation to be valid, it is important to show that the same number of ebits in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hoi-Kwong Lo , Sandu Popescu

A unitary interaction coupling two parties enables quantum communication in both the forward and backward directions. Each communication capacity can be thought of as a tradeoff between the achievable rates of specific types of forward and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aram W. Harrow , Debbie W. Leung

Two-qubit operations may be characterized by their capacities for communication, both with and without free entanglement, and their capacity for creating entanglement. We establish a set of inequalities that give an ordering to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominic W. Berry , Barry C. Sanders

We show how shared entanglement, together with classical communication and local quantum operations, can be used to perform an arbitrary collective quantum operation upon N spatially-separated qubits. A simple teleportation-based protocol…

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

Sharing logical entangled pairs between distant quantum nodes is a key process to achieve fault tolerant quantum computation and communication. However, there is a gap between current experimental specifications and theoretical requirements…

Recently, the problem of discriminating multipartite unitary operations by local operations and classical communication (LOCC) has attracted significant attention. The latest work in the literature on this problem showed that two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lvzhou Li , Daowen Qiu

We describe a general approach to proving the impossibility of implementing a quantum channel by local operations and classical communication (LOCC), even with an infinite number of rounds, and find that this can often be demonstrated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Scott M. Cohen