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The goal of an entanglement distillation protocol is to convert large quantities of noisy entangled states into a smaller number of high-fidelity Bell pairs. The celebrated one-way hashing method is one such protocol, and it is known for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Thomas A. Hahn , Ryan White , Hannes Bernien , Rotem Arnon

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

Measures of entanglement can be employed for the analysis of numerous quantum information protocols. Due to computational convenience, logarithmic negativity is often the choice in the case of continuous variable systems. In this work, we…

Motivated by the problem of designing quantum repeaters, we study entanglement distillation between two parties, Alice and Bob, starting from a mixed state and with the help of "repeater" stations. To treat the case of a single repeater, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Nicolas Dutil , Patrick Hayden

Many entanglement distillation schemes use either universal random hashing or breeding as their final step to obtain almost perfect shared EPR pairs. In spite of a high yield, the hardness of decoding a random linear code makes the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-21 H. F. Chau , K. H. Ho

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

We extend the idea of entanglement concentration for pure states(Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 88}, 187903) to the case of mixed states. The scheme works only with particle statistics and local operations, without the need of any other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. L. Huang , L. H. Cheng , X. X. Yi

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

Entanglement distillation is a process via which the strength and purity of quantum entanglement can be increased probabilistically. It is a key step in many quantum communication and computation protocols. In particular, entanglement…

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

Quantum entanglement shared by remote network nodes serves as a valuable resource for promising applications in distributed computing, cryptography, and sensing. However, distributing entanglement with high-quality via fiber optic routes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Liangzhong Ruan , Brian T. Kirby , Michael Brodsky , Moe Z. Win

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

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

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

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

Entanglement distillation is a fundamental task in quantum information processing. It not only extracts entanglement out of corrupted systems but also leads to protecting systems of interest against intervention with environment. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Jinho Chang , Joonwoo Bae , Younghun Kwon

Historically, the focus in entanglement distillation has predominantly been on the distillable entanglement, and the framework assumes complete knowledge of the initial state. In this paper, we study the reliability function of entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Zhiwen Lin , Ke Li , Kun Fang

The faithful distribution of entanglement in continuous variable systems is essential to many quantum information protocols. As such, entanglement distillation and enhancement schemes are a cornerstone of many applications. The photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Zacharie M. Leger , Aharon Brodutch , Amr S. Helmy

Entanglement is essential for quantum information processing, but is limited by noise. We address this by developing high-yield entanglement distillation protocols with several advancements. (1) We extend the 2-to-1 recurrence entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Yu Shi , Ashlesha Patil , Saikat Guha

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