arXiv:0705.4165 · Reports on Progress in Physics

Entanglement purification and quantum error correction

Wolfgang Dür, Hans J. Briegel

Published Jul 17, 2007• 330 citations

Abstract

We give a review on entanglement purification for bipartite and multipartite quantum states, with the main focus on the theoretical work carried out by our group in the last couple of years. We discuss entanglement purification in the context of quantum communication, where we emphasize its close relation to quantum error correction. Various bipartite and multipartite entanglement purification protocols are discussed, and their performance under idealized and realistic conditions is studied. Several applications of entanglement purification in quantum communication and computation are presented, which highlights the fact that entanglement purification is a fundamental tool in quantum information processing.

DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/70/8/r03

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