The existence of quantum entanglement catalysts

DOI10.1109/TIT.2004.839477zbMATH Open1298.81026arXivquant-ph/0311133OpenAlexW2108625997MaRDI QIDQ3547672FDOQ3547672

Authors: Xiaoming Sun, Runyao Duan, Mingsheng Ying 

Publication date: 21 December 2008

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

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.

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

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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)

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