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Purification of Noisy Entanglement and Faithful Teleportation via Noisy Channels
Two separated observers, by applying local operations to a supply of
not-too-impure entangled states ({\em e.g.} singlets shared through a noisy
channel), can prepare a smaller number of entangled pairs of arbitrarily high
purity ({\em e.g.} near-perfect singlets). These can then be used to faithfully
teleport unknown quantum states from one observer to the other, thereby
achieving faithful transfrom one observer to the other, thereby achieving
faithful transmission of quantum information through a noisy channel. We give
upper and lower bounds on the yield of pure singlets ()
distillable from mixed states , showing if
\bra{\Psi^-}M\ket{\Psi^-}>\half.Comment: 4 pages (revtex) plus 1 figure (postscript). See also
http://vesta.physics.ucla.edu/~smolin/ . Replaced to correct interchanged
and near top of column 2, page
A Note on Invariants and Entanglements
The quantum entanglements are studied in terms of the invariants under local
unitary transformations. A generalized formula of concurrence for
-dimensional quantum systems is presented. This generalized concurrence has
potential applications in studying separability and calculating entanglement of
formation for high dimensional mixed quantum states.Comment: Latex, 11 page
Entropic bounds on coding for noisy quantum channels
In analogy with its classical counterpart, a noisy quantum channel is
characterized by a loss, a quantity that depends on the channel input and the
quantum operation performed by the channel. The loss reflects the transmission
quality: if the loss is zero, quantum information can be perfectly transmitted
at a rate measured by the quantum source entropy. By using block coding based
on sequences of n entangled symbols, the average loss (defined as the overall
loss of the joint n-symbol channel divided by n, when n tends to infinity) can
be made lower than the loss for a single use of the channel. In this context,
we examine several upper bounds on the rate at which quantum information can be
transmitted reliably via a noisy channel, that is, with an asymptotically
vanishing average loss while the one-symbol loss of the channel is non-zero.
These bounds on the channel capacity rely on the entropic Singleton bound on
quantum error-correcting codes [Phys. Rev. A 56, 1721 (1997)]. Finally, we
analyze the Singleton bounds when the noisy quantum channel is supplemented
with a classical auxiliary channel.Comment: 20 pages RevTeX, 10 Postscript figures. Expanded Section II, added 1
figure, changed title. To appear in Phys. Rev. A (May 98
Quantum state merging and negative information
We consider a quantum state shared between many distant locations, and define
a quantum information processing primitive, state merging, that optimally
merges the state into one location. As announced in [Horodecki, Oppenheim,
Winter, Nature 436, 673 (2005)], the optimal entanglement cost of this task is
the conditional entropy if classical communication is free. Since this quantity
can be negative, and the state merging rate measures partial quantum
information, we find that quantum information can be negative. The classical
communication rate also has a minimum rate: a certain quantum mutual
information. State merging enabled one to solve a number of open problems:
distributed quantum data compression, quantum coding with side information at
the decoder and sender, multi-party entanglement of assistance, and the
capacity of the quantum multiple access channel. It also provides an
operational proof of strong subadditivity. Here, we give precise definitions
and prove these results rigorously.Comment: 23 pages, 3 figure
Entangling operations and their implementation using a small amount of entanglement
We study when a physical operation can produce entanglement between two
systems initially disentangled. The formalism we develop allows to show that
one can perform certain non-local operations with unit probability by
performing local measurement on states that are weakly entangled.Comment: 4 pages, no figure
Information-theoretic aspects of quantum inseparability of mixed states
Information-theoretic aspects of quantum inseparability of mixed states are
investigated in terms of the -entropy inequalities and teleportation
fidelity. Inseparability of mixed states is defined and a complete
characterization of the inseparable systems with maximally
disordered subsystems is presented within the Hilbert-Schmidt space formalism.
A connection between teleportation and negative conditional -entropy is
also emphasized.Comment: Revtex, 19 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. A, vol. 54; one postscript
figure available at request from [email protected]
Tema Con Variazioni: Quantum Channel Capacity
Channel capacity describes the size of the nearly ideal channels, which can
be obtained from many uses of a given channel, using an optimal error
correcting code. In this paper we collect and compare minor and major
variations in the mathematically precise statements of this idea which have
been put forward in the literature. We show that all the variations considered
lead to equivalent capacity definitions. In particular, it makes no difference
whether one requires mean or maximal errors to go to zero, and it makes no
difference whether errors are required to vanish for any sequence of block
sizes compatible with the rate, or only for one infinite sequence.Comment: 32 pages, uses iopart.cl
Characterizing entanglement with global and marginal entropic measures
We qualify the entanglement of arbitrary mixed states of bipartite quantum
systems by comparing global and marginal mixednesses quantified by different
entropic measures. For systems of two qubits we discriminate the class of
maximally entangled states with fixed marginal mixednesses, and determine an
analytical upper bound relating the entanglement of formation to the marginal
linear entropies. This result partially generalizes to mixed states the
quantification of entaglement with marginal mixednesses holding for pure
states. We identify a class of entangled states that, for fixed marginals, are
globally more mixed than product states when measured by the linear entropy.
Such states cannot be discriminated by the majorization criterion.Comment: 6 pages, 5 color figures in low resolution due to oversizing
problems; to get the original high-resolution figures please contact the
authors. Minor changes, final versio
Chaos and Complexity of quantum motion
The problem of characterizing complexity of quantum dynamics - in particular
of locally interacting chains of quantum particles - will be reviewed and
discussed from several different perspectives: (i) stability of motion against
external perturbations and decoherence, (ii) efficiency of quantum simulation
in terms of classical computation and entanglement production in operator
spaces, (iii) quantum transport, relaxation to equilibrium and quantum mixing,
and (iv) computation of quantum dynamical entropies. Discussions of all these
criteria will be confronted with the established criteria of integrability or
quantum chaos, and sometimes quite surprising conclusions are found. Some
conjectures and interesting open problems in ergodic theory of the quantum many
problem are suggested.Comment: 45 pages, 22 figures, final version, at press in J. Phys. A, special
issue on Quantum Informatio
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