English
Related papers

Related papers: Optimizing practical entanglement distillation

200 papers

Entanglement distillation is a fundamental building block in long-distance quantum communication. Though known to be useless on their own for distilling Gaussian entangled states, local Gaussian operations may still help to improve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 ShengLi Zhang , Peter van Loock

By implementing a quantum repeater protocol, our aim in this paper is the production of entanglement between two two-level atoms locating far from each other. To make our model close to experimental realizations, the atomic and field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 M Ghasemi , MK Tavassoly

Quantum networks (QNs) distribute entangled states to enable distributed quantum computing and sensing applications. However, in such QNs, quantum switches (QSs) have limited resources that are highly sensitive to noise and losses and must…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Mahdi Chehimi , Kenneth Goodenough , Walid Saad , Don Towsley , Tony X. Zhou

We introduce a class of multiparticle entanglement purification protocols that allow us to distill a large class of entangled states. These include cluster states, GHZ states and various error correction codes all of which belong to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Dür , H. Aschauer , H. -J. Briegel

Using a spontaneous parametric-downconversion source of photon pairs, we are working towards the creation of arbitrary 2-qubit quantum states with high fidelity. Currently, all physically allowable combinations of polarization entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Kwiat , Joe Altepeter , David Branning , Evan Jeffrey , Nicholas Peters , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Realizing deterministic, high-fidelity entangling interactions--of the kind that can be utilized for efficient quantum information processing--between photons remains an elusive goal. Here, we address this long-standing issue by devising a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Aniruddha Bhattacharya , Chandra Raman

Despite the central importance of quantum entanglement in quantum technologies, the understanding of the optimal ways to exploit it is still beyond our reach, and even measuring entanglement in an operationally meaningful way is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Ludovico Lami , Mario Berta , Bartosz Regula

Entanglement is the key feature of many-body quantum systems, and the development of new tools to probe it in the laboratory is an outstanding challenge. Measuring the entropy of different partitions of a quantum system provides a way to…

We propose a scheme for both distilling and quantifying entanglement, applicable to individual copies of an arbitrary unknown two-qubit state. It is realized in a usual two-qubit interferometry with local filtering. Proper filtering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-09 S. -S. B. Lee , H. -S. Sim

We introduce a simple, experimentally realisable, entanglement manipulation protocol for exploring mixed state entanglement. We show that for both non-maximally entangled pure, and mixed polarisation-entangled two qubit states, an increase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. T. Thew , W. J. Munro

Quantum entanglement is an indispensable resource for many significant quantum information processing tasks. However, because of the noise in quantum channels, it is difficult to distribute quantum entanglement over a long distance in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Zhaofeng Su , Ji Guan , Lvzhou Li

Entanglement concentration from many copies of unknown pure states is discussed, and we propose the protocol which not only achieves entropy rate, but also produces the perfect maximally entangled state. Our protocol is induced naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masahito Hayashi , Keiji Matsumoto

We give a detailed description of the entanglement purification protocol which generates maximally entangled states with high efficiencies from realistic Gaussian continuous variable entangled states. The physical implementation of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Lu-Ming Duan , G. Giedke , J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller

In the realm of quantum information processing, the efficient characterization of entangled states poses an overwhelming challenge, rendering the traditional methods including quantum tomography unfeasible and impractical. To tackle this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Ye-Chao Liu , Jiangwei Shang

Driven dissipative steady state entanglement schemes take advantage of coupling to the environment to robustly prepare highly entangled states. We present a scheme for two trapped ions to generate a maximally entangled steady state with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 C. D. B. Bentley , A. R. R. Carvalho , D. Kielpinski , J. J. Hope

The transfer of knowledge from one policy to another is an important tool in Deep Reinforcement Learning. This process, referred to as distillation, has been used to great success, for example, by enhancing the optimisation of agents,…

Modeling and simulations of entanglement-based quantum-networking protocols commonly assume perfect entangled states. Some investigations have been performed which show how imperfections cause the efficiency of the protocols to rapidly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Randy Lafler , R. Nicholas Lanning

The heralded generation of entangled states is a long-standing goal in quantum information processing, because it is indispensable for a number of quantum protocols. Polarization entangled photon pairs are usually generated through…

We investigate optimal discrimination between two projective single-qubit measurements in a scenario where the measurement can be performed only once. We consider general setting involving a tunable fraction of inconclusive outcomes and we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 M. Mikova , M. Sedlak , I. Straka , M. Micuda , M. Ziman , M. Jezek , M. Dusek , J. Fiurasek

Blind quantum computation (BQC) provides an efficient method for the client who does not have enough sophisticated technology and knowledge to perform universal quantum computation. The single-server BQC protocol requires the client to have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-12 Lan Zhou , Yu-Bo Sheng