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The concept of entanglement and separability of quantum states is relevant for several fields in physics. Still, there is a lack of effective operational methods to characterise these features. We propose a method to certify quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Ties-A. Ohst , Xiao-Dong Yu , Otfried Gühne , H. Chau Nguyen

We explore classical to quantum transition of correlations by studying the quantum states located just outside of the classically-correlated-states-only neighborhood of the maximally mixed state (the largest separable ball (LSB)). We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay , Vwani Roychowdhury

We show that no entanglement is necessary to distribute entanglement; that is, two distant particles can be entangled by sending a third particle that is never entangled with the other two. Similarly, two particles can become entangled by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. S. Cubitt , F. Verstraete , W. Dur , J. I. Cirac

Entanglement is at the heart of quantum theory and is responsible for various quantum-enabling technologies. In practice, during its preparation, storage, and distribution to the intended recipients, this valuable quantum resource may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Xiao-Xu Fang , Gelo Noel M. Tabia , Kai-Siang Chen , Yeong-Cherng Liang , He Lu

A system of three or four particle can be entangled in a number of different ways. It may be the case that only subsets of the particles are entangled, and these subsets are not entangled with each other. It may also be the case that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Mark Hillery

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

The work is intended to represent some interesting and apparently peculiar features of entangled system in both pure as well as mixed states level. In the pure state level, we are largely concerned about the existence and characteristics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-15 Indrani Chattopadhyay

A subspace of a multipartite Hilbert space is completely entangled if it contains no product states. Such subspaces can be large with a known maximum size, S, approaching the full dimension of the system, D. We show that almost all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 Jonathan Walgate , A. J. Scott

Entanglement distillation is a well-studied problem in quantum information, where one typically starts with $n$ noisy Bell pairs and distills $k$ Bell pairs of higher fidelity. While distilling Bell pairs is the canonical setting, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Narayanan Rengaswamy , Ankur Raina , Nithin Raveendran , Bane Vasić

We study the distinguishability of multipartite quantum states by separable operations. We first present a necessary and sufficient condition for a finite set of orthogonal quantum states to be distinguishable by separable operations. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-25 Runyao Duan , Yuan Feng , Yu Xin , Mingsheng Ying

Multipartite entanglement has a much more complex structure than bipartite entanglement. A state that lacks generic multipartite entanglement is 2-producible, i.e. it can be written as a tensor product of at most 2-partite entangled states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Tian-Ren Jin , Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan

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

Higher-dimensional quantum systems are attracting interest for improving quantum protocol performance by increasing memory space. Characterizing quantum resources of such systems is fundamental but experimentally costly. We tackle the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Christian Candeago , Paolo Da Rold , Michele Grossi , Pawel Horodecki , Antonio Mandarino

We provide generalizations of known two-qubit entanglement distillation protocols for arbitrary Hilbert space dimensions. The protocols, which are analogues of the hashing and breeding procedures, are adapted to bipartite quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. G. H. Vollbrecht , M. M. Wolf

We investigate the scenario where an observer, Alice, shares a two-qubit state with an arbitrary number of observers, Bobs, via sequentially and independently recycling the qubit in possession of the first Bob. It is known that there exist…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Chirag Srivastava , Mahasweta Pandit , Ujjwal Sen

We discuss the entanglement properties of bipartite states with Gaussian Wigner functions. Separability and the positivity of the partial transpose are characterized in terms of the covariance matrix of the state, and it is shown that for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. F. Werner , M. M. Wolf

We study and solve the problem of distilling secret key from quantum states representing correlation between two parties (Alice and Bob) and an eavesdropper (Eve) via one-way public discussion: we prove a coding theorem to achieve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Devetak , Andreas Winter

The uncertainty principle sets lower bound on the uncertainties of two incompatible observables measured on a particle. The uncertainty lower bound can be reduced by considering a particle as a quantum memory entangled with the measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-10 F. Adabi , S. Haseli , S. Salimi

We study the explicit relation between violation of Bell inequalities and bipartite distillability of multi-qubit states. It has been shown that even though for $N\ge 8$ there exist $N$-qubit bound entangled states which violates a Bell…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Soojoon Lee , Jinhyoung Lee , Jaewan Kim

We study certain quantum states for which the PPT criterion is both sufficient and necessary for separability. A class of $n\times n$ bipartite mixed states is presented and the conditions of PPT for these states are derived. The separable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 Ting-Gui Zhang , Xiaofen Huang , Xianqing Li-Jost , Naihuan Jing , Shao-Ming Fei