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arXiv:2303.00856 · Physical Review A

Broadcasting single-qubit and multiqubit entangled states: Authentication, cryptography, and distributed quantum computation

Hiroki Sukeno, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Mark S. Hillery, János A. Bergou, Dov Fields, Vladimir S. Malinovsky

Published Jun 5, 2023• 7 citations

Abstract

Quantum entanglement assisted with measurements provides various pathways to communicate information to parties within a network. In this work, we generalize a previous broadcasting protocol and present schemes to broadcast product and multipartite entangled quantum states, where in the latter case the sender can remotely add phase gates or abort distributing the states. We first focus on the broadcasting of product quantum states in a network, and generalize the basic protocol to include an arbitrary basis rotation and allow for multiple receivers and senders. We show how to add and delete senders from the network. The generalization also includes the case where a phase to be applied to the broadcast states is not known in advance but is provided to a sender encoded in another quantum state. Applications of broadcasting product states include authentication and three-state quantum cryptography. In the second part, we study the distribution of a single multiqubit state shared among several receivers entangled with multiqubit phase gates, which includes the graph states as an example. We show that by coordinating with the sender, the receivers can assist in performing remote, distributed measurement-based quantum computation with the Pauli-$X$ basis measurement alone. As another application of this, we discuss the distribution of the multiqubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.107.062605

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We establish operational limits on the broadcasting of genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) in quantum networks. Using a distributed protocol in which each of N parties locally implements optimal 1

\to

2 cloning via beam-splitter interactions, we derive exact expressions for the broadcast fidelity of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ), W states, and Cluster states in a limited setting. We show that the fidelity decays exponentially with system size as [c(R)]

^N

, providing a quantitative expression of multipartite entanglement monogamy in the broadcasting setting, and that both state families share a universal normalisation factor arising from independent post-selection probabilities. Most significantly, we prove a no-go result for simultaneous GME certification: for all reflectivities and all system sizes, the two broadcast copies cannot be simultaneously certified as genuinely multipartite entangled within the standard framework of fidelity-based witnesses. We further check this behaviour for three- and four-party cluster states, finding consistent results that support the generality of the no-go beyond the GHZ and W families. This obstruction arises from the redistribution of multipartite coherence, which both reduces the achievable fidelity and increases the corresponding certification threshold. Our results reveal a fundamental trade-off between the broadcastability of multipartite entanglement and its operational certifiability, and delineate intrinsic limits on entanglement distribution in quantum networks.