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Single-photon-assisted entanglement concentration of a multi-photon system in a partially entangled W state with weak cross-Kerr nonlinearity
We propose a nonlocal entanglement concentration protocol (ECP) for
-photon systems in a partially entangled W state, resorting to some
ancillary single photons and the parity-check measurement based on cross-Kerr
nonlinearity. One party in quantum communication first performs a parity-check
measurement on her photon in an -photon system and an ancillary photon, and
then she picks up the even-parity instance for obtaining the standard W state.
When she obtains an odd-parity instance, the system is in a less-entanglement
state and it is the resource in the next round of entanglement concentration.
By iterating the entanglement concentration process several times, the present
ECP has the total success probability approaching to the limit in theory. The
present ECP has the advantage of a high success probability. Moreover, the
present ECP requires only the -photon system itself and some ancillary
single photons, not two copies of the systems, which decreases the difficulty
of its implementation largely in experiment. It maybe have good applications in
quantum communication in future.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
Multiparty quantum secret sharing with pure entangled states and decoy photons
We present a scheme for multiparty quantum secret sharing of a private key
with pure entangled states and decoy photons. The boss, say Alice uses the
decoy photons, which are randomly in one of the four nonorthogonal
single-photon states, to prevent a potentially dishonest agent from
eavesdropping freely. This scheme requires the parties of communication to have
neither an ideal single-photon quantum source nor a maximally entangled one,
which makes this scheme more convenient than others in a practical application.
Moreover, it has the advantage of having high intrinsic efficiency for qubits
and exchanging less classical information in principle.Comment: 5 pages, no figure
Bounds on entanglement distillation and secret key agreement for quantum broadcast channels
The squashed entanglement of a quantum channel is an additive function of
quantum channels, which finds application as an upper bound on the rate at
which secret key and entanglement can be generated when using a quantum channel
a large number of times in addition to unlimited classical communication. This
quantity has led to an upper bound of on the capacity
of a pure-loss bosonic channel for such a task, where is the average
fraction of photons that make it from the input to the output of the channel.
The purpose of the present paper is to extend these results beyond the
single-sender single-receiver setting to the more general case of a single
sender and multiple receivers (a quantum broadcast channel). We employ
multipartite generalizations of the squashed entanglement to constrain the
rates at which secret key and entanglement can be generated between any subset
of the users of such a channel, along the way developing several new properties
of these measures. We apply our results to the case of a pure-loss broadcast
channel with one sender and two receivers.Comment: 35 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on
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