The existence of quantum entanglement catalysts

DOI10.1109/TIT.2004.839477MaRDI QIDQ3547672zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xiaoming Sun, Runyao Duan, Mingsheng Ying

Publication date 21 December 2008

Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0311133

zbMATH Keywords

quantum informationentanglement transformationentanglement statesEntanglement catalysts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Information theory (general) (94A15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45)

Abstract: Without additional resources, it is often impossible to transform one entangled quantum state into another with local quantum operations and classical communication. Jonathan and Plenio [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3566(1999)] presented an interesting example showing that the presence of another state, called a catalyst, enables such a transformation without changing the catalyst. They also pointed out that in general it is very hard to find an analytical condition under which a catalyst exists. In this paper we study the existence of catalysts for two incomparable quantum states. For the simplest case of $2imes2$ catalysts for transformations from one $4imes4$ state to another, a necessary and sufficient condition for existence is found. For the general case, we give an efficient polynomial time algorithm to decide whether a $kimesk$ catalyst exists for two $nimesn$ incomparable states, where $k$ is treated as a constant.

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