In this work, we extensively study the problem of broadcasting of entanglement. In the first part of the work, we reconceptualize the idea of state dependent quantum cloning machine, and in that process we introduce different types of state dependent cloners like static and dynamic state dependent cloners. We derive the conditions under which we can make these cloners independent of the input state. In the broadcasting part, as our resource initial state, we start with general two qubit state and consider specific examples like, non maximally entangled state (NME), Werner like state (WS), and Bell diagonal state (BDS). We apply both state dependent/ state independent cloners, both locally and non-locally, in each of these cases. Incidentally, we find several instances where state dependent cloners outperform state independent cloners in broadcasting. This work gives us a holistic view on the broadcasting of entanglement in various two qubit states, when we have an almost exhaustive sets of cloning machines in our arsenal
Suppose we are given an entangled pair and asked how well we can produce two entangled pairs starting from a given entangled pair using only local operations. To respond to this question, we study broadcasting of entanglement using a state-dependent quantum cloning machine as a local copier. We show that the length of the interval for probability-amplitude-squared α 2 for broadcasting of entanglement using a state-dependent cloner can be made larger than the length of the interval for probability-amplitude-squared for broadcasting entanglement using a state-independent cloner. Further we show that there exists a local state-dependent cloner which gives better quality copy (in terms of average fidelity) of an entangled pair than the local universal cloner.
In this work, we exhaustively investigate
1→2 local and non local broadcasting of entanglement and correlations (optimal and non-optimal) using asymmetric Pauli cloners, with the most general two qubit state as a resource. We exemplify the broadcasting of entanglement using Maximally Entangled Mixed States and demostrate the variation of broadcasting range with the amount of entanglement in resource state as well as the asymmetry in the cloner. We show that it is impossible to optimally broadcast quantum correlations that go beyond entanglement (Geometric Discord) with the help of these asymmetric Pauli cloning machines. We introduce the concept of asymmetry in correlations to quantify the degree of variation in the amount of correlation present in the output pairs obtained after broadcasting. We also study the problem of
1→3 broadcasting of entanglement using non-maximally entangled state (NME) as a resource. We adopt two different strategies : successive application of
1→2 optimal cloning machines and application of
1→3 optimal cloning machines. Interestingly, we show that
1→3 optimal cloner does a better job at broadcasting than the successive application of
1→2 cloners. Finally, we create an example to show that there are local unitaries, which when applied on non-maximally entangled state locally give us a better range of broadcasting, that surpasses the best possible range obtained using cloning machines. This result opens up a new direction in exploration of methods to perform broadcasting which may outperform standard broadcasting strategies implemented through cloning transformations.