arXiv:2401.08944

Optimal local filtering operation for enhancing quantum entanglement

Zhaofeng Su, Nina Sukhodoeva

Published Jan 17, 2024• 0 citations

Abstract

Quantum entanglement is an indispensable resource for many significant quantum information processing tasks. Thus, distilling more entanglement from less entangled resource is a task of practical significance and has been investigated for decades. The literature [Verstraete \textit{et al}., \href{https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.64.010101}{Phys. Rev. A 64, 010101(2001)}] considered a scenario to increase the entanglement by local filtering operation and qualitatively derived the variance relation of entanglement. We investigate the scenario with general two-qubit resources to find the optimal strategy of filtering operations. We obtain the upper bound for the ratio of entanglement increase and find the corresponding optimal local filtering operation to achieve the maximal ratio. Our analysis shows that the upper bound ratio grows with the length of local Bloch vector while the success probability decrease with it. We further extend the research to investigate the optimal measurement strategy by considering general measurement. Our result shows that local measurement can not increase the expectation of quantum entanglement, which gives more analytical evidence to the well known fact that local operation can not create quantum entanglement.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.08944

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