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A key problem in quantum information science is to determine optimal protocols for the interconversion of entangled states shared between remote parties. While for two parties a large number of results in this direction is available, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Alexander Streltsov

No pure entangled state can be distilled from a $2\otimes 2$ or $2\otimes 3$ mixed state by separable operations. In $3\otimes 3$, pure entanglement can be distilled by separable operation but not by LOCC. In this letter, we proved the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Indranil Biswas , Atanu Bhunia , Indrani Chattopadhyay , Debasis Sarkar

Computing the exact rate at which entanglement can be distilled from noisy quantum states is one of the longest-standing questions in quantum information. We give an exact solution for entanglement distillation under the set of dually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Ludovico Lami , Bartosz Regula

Traditional entanglement distillation follows a post-processing paradigm, a noisy quantum state, after full transmission through a noisy channel, is treated as a static resource to be purified via LOCC (local operations and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Gang Lyu , Wenlong Sun , Yuanfeng Jin , Hua Nan

Entanglement distillation refers to the task of transforming a collection of weakly entangled pairs into fewer highly entangled ones. It is a core ingredient in quantum repeater protocols, needed to transmit entanglement over arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Stephan Waeldchen , Janina Gertis , Earl T. Campbell , Jens Eisert

The performance of quantum resource manipulation protocols, including key examples such as distillation of quantum entanglement, is measured in terms of the rate at which desired target states can be produced from a given noisy state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Ludovico Lami , Bartosz Regula , Ryuji Takagi

Entanglement is the resource to overcome the natural limitations of spatially separated parties restricted to Local Operations assisted by Classical Communications (LOCC). Recently two new classes of operational entanglement measures, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 D. Sauerwein , K. Schwaiger , M. Cuquet , J. I. de Vicente , B. Kraus

Every multipartite entangled quantum state becomes fully separable after an entanglement breaking quantum channel acted locally on each of its subsystems. Whether there are other quantum channels with this property has been an open problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Guillaume Aubrun , Alexander Müller-Hermes

Distributed quantum information processing is a promising platform for scaling up quantum information processing, where small- and intermediate-scale quantum devices are connected by a network of quantum channels for communicating quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Hayata Yamasaki

Reliable distribution of quantum entanglement over long distances is a central challenge in quantum information science, fundamentally limited by decoherence in noisy communication channels. In this work, we investigate the asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Piotr Masajada , Aby Philip , Alexander Streltsov

The distribution of typical bipartite pure states is studied within the framework of state transformation via local operation and classical communication (LOCC). We report the statistics of comparable and incomparable states in different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-14 Rivu Gupta , Arghya Maity , Shiladitya Mal , Aditi Sen De

We exhibit a two-parameter family of bipartite mixed states $\rho_{bc}$, in a $d\otimes d$ Hilbert space, which are negative under partial transposition (NPT), but for which we conjecture that no maximally entangled pure states in $2\otimes…

Recent advances have led towards first prototypes of quantum networks in which entanglement is distributed by sources producing bipartite entangled states. This raises the question of which states can be generated in quantum networks based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Cornelia Spee , Tristan Kraft

Entanglement distillation, an essential quantum information processing task, refers to the conversion from multiple copies of noisy entangled states to a smaller number of highly entangled states. In this work, we study the non-asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Kun Fang , Xin Wang , Marco Tomamichel , Runyao Duan

We prove that it is impossible to distill more entanglement from a single copy of a two-mode bipartite entangled Gaussian state via LOCC Gaussian operations. More generally, we show that any hypothetical distillation protocol for Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jaromir Fiurasek

Entanglement distillation is a key step in quantum information, both theoretically and practically. It has been proven that non-positive-partial transpose (NPT) entangled states of rank at most four is 1-distillable under local operation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Zihua Song , Lin Chen , Yongge Wang

We demonstrate the irreversibility of asymptotic entanglement manipulation under quantum operations that completely preserve the positivity of partial transpose (PPT), resolving a major open problem in quantum information theory. Our key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Xin Wang , Runyao Duan

Entanglement is a fundamental resource in quantum information processing, yet understanding its manipulation and transformation remains a challenge. Many tasks rely on highly entangled pure states, but obtaining such states is often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Ray Ganardi , Tulja Varun Kondra , Alexander Streltsov

Many different quantum information communication protocols such as teleportation, dense coding and entanglement based quantum key distribution are based on the faithful transmission of entanglement between distant location in an optical…

Entanglement is one of the most striking features of quantum mechanics, and yet it is not specifically quantum. More specific to quantum mechanics is the connection between entanglement and thermodynamics, which leads to an identification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Giulio Chiribella , Carlo Maria Scandolo