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arXiv:1905.05930 · Physical Review A

Genuinely nonlocal product bases: Classification and entanglement-assisted discrimination

Sumit Rout, Ananda G. Maity, Amit Mukherjee, Saronath Halder, Manik Banik

Published Sep 16, 2019• 69 citations
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Abstract

An orthogonal product basis of a composite Hilbert space is genuinely nonlocal if the basis states are locally indistinguishable across every bipartition. From an operational point of view, such a basis corresponds to a separable measurement that cannot be implemented by local operations and classical communication unless all the parties come together in a single location. In this work we classify genuinely nonlocal product bases into different categories. Our classification is based on the state elimination property of the set via orthogonality-preserving measurements when all the parties are spatially separated or different subsets of the parties come together. We then study local state discrimination protocols for several such bases with additional entangled resources shared among the parties. Apart from consuming less entanglement than teleportation-based schemes, our protocols indicate operational significance of the proposed classification and exhibit nontrivial use of genuine entanglement in the local state discrimination problem.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.100.032321

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Entanglement-assisted discrimination of orthogonal quantum states exhibiting quantum nonlocality is a frontier topic in quantum information theory. In this paper, we investigate the role of multipartite entanglement and develop resource-efficient LOCC discrimination protocols for nonlocal sets of orthogonal states, including multipartite orthogonal product-state sets and entangled-state sets with different nonlocal features. By incorporating controlled-NOT (CNOT) operations into the discrimination procedure, we construct protocols for genuinely nonlocal GHZ bases in four- and five-qubit systems that require only a single EPR pair. For the same target sets, we compare different entanglement-assisted schemes and identify those with lower entanglement consumption. We further observe that, on average, protocols avoiding teleportation consume fewer resources than teleportation-based approaches. In addition, when higher-partite GHZ-type resources (with n>3n>3n>3) are available among suitable subsystems, they can in some cases reduce the overall entanglement cost. Our results highlight the operational significance of multipartite entanglement and provide practical protocols for the local discrimination of orthogonal state sets exhibiting quantum nonlocality.
Genuine nonlocality arises when a set of multipartite orthogonal states is locally indistinguishable under any bipartition of the subsystems. The entanglement-assisted discrimination of such genuinely nonlocal orthogonal product sets has attracted significant attention in quantum information. Based on the criterion of local irreducibility, genuine nonlocality is classified into Type I (reducible) and Type II (irreducible). We present entanglement-assisted discrimination schemes for both types of genuinely nonlocal sets that use minimal resources. For low-dimensional cases, Type I sets require only a single EPR pair, whereas Type II sets necessitate only one GHZ state. We extend these protocols to higher-dimensional systems: the discrimination of Type I sets requires only one maximally entangled state in a two-qutrit system, while that of Type II sets similarly demands a single maximally entangled state in a three-qutrit system. For nnn-partite (n>3n > 3n>3) systems, Type I sets continue to require only one maximally entangled state, whereas Type II sets necessitate just one additional EPR pair compared to their Type I counterparts. These results provide a robust framework for the efficient discrimination of genuinely nonlocal sets using minimal quantum resources.
Abstract A set of orthogonal product states is deemed genuinely nonlocal if they remain locally indistinguishable under any bipartition. In this paper, we first construct a genuinely nonlocal product basis B I(5, 3) in C 5 ⨂ C 5 ⨂ C 5 using a set of nonlocal product states in C 3 ⨂ C 4 . Then, we obtain a genuinely nonlocal product basis B II(5, 3) by replacing certain states in B I(5, 3) with some superposition states. We achieve perfect discrimination of the constructed genuinely nonlocal product basis, separately employing two EPR states and one GHZ state. Our protocol is more efficient than quantum teleportation.
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A set of orthogonal product states of a composite Hilbert space is genuinely nonlocal if the states are locally indistinguishable across any bipartition. In this work, we construct a minimal set of party asymmetry genuine nonlocal set in arbitrary large dimensional composite quantum systems Cd⊗Cd⊗CdC^d\otimes C^d\otimes C^dCd⊗Cd⊗Cd. We provide a local discriminating protocol by using a three qubit GHZ state as a resource. On the contrary, we observe that single-copy of two qubit Bell states provide no advantage for this discrimination task. Recently, Halder et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040403 (2019)], proposed the concept of strong nonlocality without entanglement and ask an open question whether there exist an incomplete strong nonlocal set or not. In [Phys. Rev. A 102, 042228 (2020)], an answer is provided by the authors. Here, we construct an incomplete party asymmetry strong nonlocal set which is more stronger than the set constructed in [Phys. Rev. A 102, 042228 (2020)] with respect to the consumption of entanglement as a resource for their respective discrimination tasks.