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Optimal entanglement purifying via entanglement swapping

Quantum Physics 2016-09-08 v1

Abstract

It is known that entanglement swapping can be used to realize entanglement purifying. By this way, two particles belong to different non-maximally entangled pairs can be projected probabilisticly to a maximally entangled state or to a less entangled state. In this report, we show, when the less entangled state is obtained, if a unitary transformation is introduced locally, then a maximally entangled state can be obtained probabilisticly from this less entangled state. The total successful probability of our scheme is equal to the entanglement of a single pairpurification (if two original pairs are in the same non-maximally entangled states) or to the smaller entanglement of a single pair purification of these two pairs (if two original pairs are not in the same non-maximally entangled states). The advantage of our scheme is no continuous indefinite iterative procedure is needed to achieve optimal purifying.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0005125,
  title  = {Optimal entanglement purifying via entanglement swapping},
  author = {Bao-Sen Shi and Yun-Kun Jiang and Guang-Can Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0005125},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

7 pages, Revtex, no figure, accepted by Phys. Rev. A as a Brief Report

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