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Distilling highly entangled quantum states from weaker ones is a process that is crucial for efficient and long-distance quantum communication, and has implications for several other quantum information protocols. We introduce the notion of…

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Known entanglement purification protocols for mixed states use collective measurements on several copies of the state in order to increase the entanglement of some of them. We address the question of whether it is possible to purify the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Linden , S. Massar , S. Popescu

We describe an entanglement purification protocol to generate maximally entangled states with high efficiencies from two-mode squeezed states or from mixed Gaussian continuous entangled states. The protocol relies on a local quantum…

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Although entropy is a necessary and sufficient quantity to characterize the order of work content for equal energetic (EE) states in the asymptotic limit, for the finite quantum systems, the relation is not so linear and requires detail…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Mir Alimuddin , Tamal Guha , Preeti Parashar

Recently, entanglement concentration was explicitly shown to be irreversible. However, it is still not clear what kind of states can be reversibly converted in the asymptotic setting by LOCC when neither the initial nor the target state is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 Kosuke Ito , Wataru Kumagai , Masahito Hayashi

Quantum entanglement offers the possibility of making measurements beyond the classical limit, however some issues still need to be overcome before it can be applied in realistic lossy systems. Recent work has used the quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 P. A. Knott , J. A. Dunningham

Reversible state transformations under entanglement non-increasing operations give rise to entanglement measures. It is well known that asymptotic local operations and classical communication (LOCC) are required to get a simple operational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ashish V. Thapliyal , John A. Smolin

Entanglement distillation, the process of converting weakly entangled states into maximally entangled ones using Local Operations and Classical Communication (LOCC), is pivotal for robust entanglement-assisted quantum information processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Christopher Popp , Tobias C. Sutter , Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

We present two entanglement concentration protocols (ECPs) for arbitrary three-electron W state based on their charges and spins. Different from other ECPs, in both two ECPs, with the help of the electronic polarization beam splitter (PBS)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-18 Lan Zhou , Jiong Liu , Sheng-Yang Zhao

Quantum coherence is one of the fundamental aspects distinguishing classical and quantum theories. Coherence between different energy eigenstates is particularly important, as it serves as a valuable resource under the law of energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Naoto Shiraishi , Ryuji Takagi

Quantum resource manipulation may include an ancillary state called a catalyst, which aids the transformation while restoring its original form at the end, and characterizing the enhancement enabled by catalysts is essential to reveal the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Ryuji Takagi , Naoto Shiraishi

We examine the powers of entanglement-assisted transformation and multiple-copy entanglement transformation. First, we find a sufficient condition of when a given catalyst is useful in producing another specific target state. As an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Runyao Duan , Yuan Feng , Mingsheng Ying

Understanding the fundamental limits of state convertibility is crucial for establishing the boundaries of quantum information processing and thermodynamic efficiency. While auxiliary systems, catalysts, can facilitate otherwise impossible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Jingsong Ao , Aby Philip , Alexander Streltsov

When a quantum system is distributed to spatially separated parties, it is natural to consider how the system evolves when the parties perform local quantum operations with classical communication (LOCC). However, the structure of LOCC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Eric Chitambar , Julio I. de Vicente , Mark W. Girard , Gilad Gour

We present an efficient entanglement concentration protocol (ECP) for mobile electrons with charge detection. This protocol is quite different from other ECPs for one can obtain a maximally entangled pair from a pair of less-entangled state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Yu-Bo Sheng , Lan Zhou , Wei-Wen Cheng , Long-Yan Gong , Sheng-Mei Zhao

The distribution of entangled states of light over long distances is a major challenge in the field of quantum information. Optical losses, phase diffusion and mixing with thermal states lead to decoherence and destroy the non-classical…

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

The entanglement resource required for quantum information processing comes in a variety of forms, from Bell states to multipartite GHZ states or cluster states. Purifying these resources after their imperfect generation is an indispensable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Stefan Krastanov , Alexander Sanchez de la Cerda , Prineha Narang

Catalysis refers to the possibility of performing an otherwise impossible local state transformation by sharing an additional state, i.e. a catalyst, which is returned at the end of the protocol. There is a stronger version, known as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Guillermo Díez-Pastor , Julio I. de Vicente

Graph states are a key resource for a number of applications in quantum information theory. Due to the inherent noise in noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era devices, it is important to understand the effects noise has on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Aqil Sajjad , Eneet Kaur , Kenneth Goodenough , Don Towsley , Saikat Guha