Mixedness and entanglement in the presence of localized closed timelike curves

DOI10.1007/S11128-016-1305-0zbMATH Open1348.81088arXiv1506.02333OpenAlexW3098733063MaRDI QIDQ331577FDOQ331577

Authors: Eylee Jung, D. K. Park 

Publication date: 27 October 2016

Published in: Quantum Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We examine mixedness and entanglement of the chronology-respecting (CR) system with assuming that quantum mechanical closed timelike curves (CTCs) exist in nature and by introducing the qubit system and applying the general controlled operations between CR and CTC systems. We use the magnitude of Bloch vector as a measure of mixedness. While Deutschian-CTC (D-CTC) either preserves or decreases the magnitude, postselected-CTC (P-CTC) can increases it. Nonintuitively, even the completely mixed CR-qubit can be converted into a pure state after CTC-qubit travels around the P-CTC. It is also shown that while D-CTC cannot increase the entanglement of CR system, P-CTC can increase it. Surprisingly, any partially entangled state can be maximally entangled pure state if P-CTC exists. Thus, distillation of P-CTC-assisted entanglement can be easily achieved without preparing the multiple copies of the partially entangled state.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02333

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zbMATH Keywords

entanglementclosed timelike curvesmixedness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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