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Entanglement distillation is the process of concentrating entanglement from a given quantum state. We present a technique for distillation of bi-partite polarization entanglement using interferometry. This technique can be optimized to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Chithrabhanu Perumangatt , Tang Zong Sheng , Alexander Ling

Entanglement distillation is a fundamental information processing task whose implementation is key to quantum communication and modular quantum computing. Noise experienced by such communication and computing platforms occurs not only in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Vikesh Siddhu , Dina Abdelhadi , Tomas Jochym-O'Connor , John Smolin

The degradation of entanglement in quantum memories due to decoherence is a critical challenge for scalable quantum networks. We present an entanglement distillation protocol based on the [[4,2,2]] quantum error-detecting code, deriving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Huidan Zheng , Gunsik Min , Ilkwon Sohn , Jun Heo

Estimating noise processes is an essential step for practical quantum information processing. Standard estimation tools require consuming valuable quantum resources. Here we ask the question of whether the noise affecting entangled states…

Entanglement distillation has many applications in quantum information processing and is an important tool for improving the quality and efficiency of quantum communication, cryptography, computing, and simulation. We propose an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Dan Xu , Changjia Chen , Brian T. Kirby , Li Qian

An important open problem in quantum information theory is the question of the existence of NPT bound entanglement. In the past years, little progress has been made, mainly because of the lack of mathematical tools to address the problem.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lieven Clarisse

We introduce an entanglement distillation (purification) protocol for supersinglet states composed of N qubits. The supersinglet state we target is a total spin zero state with zero spin variance, and has a fully entangled structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Saeed Ahmad , Shuang Li , Jonathan Raghoonanan , Kaixuan Zhou , Valentin Ivannikov , Tim Byrnes

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.…

Entanglement [1, 2] enables powerful new quantum technologies [3-8], but in real-world implementations, entangled states are often subject to decoherence and preparation errors. Entanglement distillation [9, 10] can often counteract these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-24 Jonathan Lavoie , Rainer Kaltenbaek , Marco Piani , Kevin J. Resch

Entanglement distillation transforms weakly entangled noisy states into highly entangled states, a primitive to be used in quantum repeater schemes and other protocols designed for quantum communication and key distribution. In this work,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 Earl T. Campbell , Marco G. Genoni , Jens Eisert

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

We consider entanglement distillation from a single-copy of a multipartite state, and instead of rates we analyze the "quality" of the distilled entanglement. This "quality" is quantified by the fidelity with the GHZ-state. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ll. Masanes

Given the goal of maximizing CHSH violation, we compare the optimal strategies of entanglement and nonlocality distillation. In the limit of the number of copies of the shared state, entanglement distillation is guaranteed to work by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Peter Høyer , Jibran Rashid , Razeen ud Din

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 distillation is a basic task in quantum information, and the distillable entanglement of three bipartite reduced density matrices from a tripartite pure state has been studied in [Phys. Rev. A 84, 012325 (2011)]. We extend this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Yize Sun , Lin Chen

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…

Assessing the quality of an ensemble of noisy entangled states is a central task in quantum information processing. Usually this is done by measuring and hence destroying multiple copies, from which state tomography or fidelity estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Ferran Riera-Sàbat , Jorge Miguel-Ramiro , Wolfgang Dür

Entanglement distillation is an essential ingredient for long distance quantum communications. In the continuous variable setting, Gaussian states play major roles in quantum teleportation, quantum cloning and quantum cryptography. However,…

We investigate the irreversibility of entanglement distillation for a symmetric d-1 parameter family of mixed bipartite quantum states acting on Hilbert spaces of arbitrary dimension d x d. We prove that in this family the entanglement cost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. G. H. Vollbrecht , R. F. Werner , M. M. Wolf

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