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Quantum Information and Computation

Optimal two-particle entanglement by universal quantum processes

G. Alber, A. Delgado, Igor Jex

Published Oct 1, 2001• 1 citation
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Abstract

Within the class of all possible universal (covariant) two-particle quantum processes in arbitrary dimensional Hilbert spaces those universal quantum processes are determined whose output states optimize the recently proposed entanglement measure of Vidal and Werner. It is demonstrated that these optimal entanglement processes belong to a one-parameter family of universal entanglement processes whose output states do not contain any separable components. It is shown that these optimal universal entanglement processes generate antisymmetric output states and, with the single exception of qubit systems, they preserve information about the initial input state.

DOI
10.26421/qic1.3-3

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Within the class of all possible universal (covariant) two-particle quantum processes in arbitrary dimensional Hilbert spaces those universal quantum processes are determined whose output states optimize the recently proposed entanglement measure of Vidal and Werner. It is demonstrated that these optimal entanglement processes belong to a one-parameter family of universal entanglement processes whose output states do not contain any separable components. It is shown that these optimal universal entanglement processes generate antisymmetric output states and, with the single exception of qubit systems, they preserve information about the initial input state.
Universal two-particle entanglement processes are analyzed in arbitrary dimensional Hilbert spaces. On the basis of this analysis the class of possible optimal universal entanglement processes is determined whose resulting output states do not contain any separable states. It is shown that these processes form a one-parameter family. For all Hilbert space dimensions larger than two the resulting optimally entangled output states are mixtures of anti-symmetric states which are freely entangled and which also preserve information about input states. Within this one-parameter family there is only one process by which all information about any input state is destroyed completely.
Optimal universal entanglement processes are discussed which entangle two quantum systems in an optimal way for all possible initial states. It is demonstrated that the linear character of quantum theory which enforces the peaceful coexistence of quantum mechanics and relativity imposes severe restrictions on the structure of the resulting optimally entangled states. Depending on the dimension of the one-particle Hilbert space such a universal process generates either a pure Bell state or mixed entangled states. In the limit of very large dimensions of the one-particle Hilbert space the von-Neumann entropy of the optimally entangled state differs from the one of the maximally mixed two-particle state by one bit only.
We analyze various scenarios for entangling two initially unentangled qubits. In particular, we propose an optimal universal entangler that entangles a qubit in unknown state $|\ensuremath{\Psi}〉$ with a qubit in a reference (known) state ∣0〉.|0〉.∣0〉. That is, our entangler generates the output state that is as close as possible to the pure (symmetrized) state $(|\ensuremath{\Psi}〉|0〉+|0〉|\ensuremath{\Psi}〉).$ The most attractive feature of this entangling machine, is that the fidelity of its performance (i.e., the distance between the output and the ideally entangled---symmetrized state) does not depend on the input and takes the constant value $\mathcal{F}=(9+3\sqrt{2})/14\ensuremath{\simeq}0.946.$ We also analyze how to optimally generate from a single qubit initially prepared in an unknown state $|\ensuremath{\Psi}〉$ a two qubit entangled system, which is as close as possible to a Bell state $(|\ensuremath{\Psi}〉|{\ensuremath{\Psi}}^{\ensuremath{\perp}}〉+|{\ensuremath{\Psi}}^{\ensuremath{\perp}}〉|\ensuremath{\Psi}〉),$ where $〈\ensuremath{\Psi}|{\ensuremath{\Psi}}^{\ensuremath{\perp}}〉=0.$
Abstract We study the optimal way of creating bi-partite entanglement using a general two-qubit in­ teraction. On the one hand, we analyze the entanglement capability of an arbitrary non-local Hamiltonian acting on two qubits. We explicitly calculate the state which maximizes the entangle­ ment produced per time step 81 during the non-local evolution. On the other hand, we determine the maximal amount of entanglement which can be produced by an arbitrary two-qubit gate. We also give the separable state which leads to the output state containing this amount of entanglement. Furthermore, we consider the situation where auxiliary systems are present. Finally, we determine the non-unitary processes which are able to create entanglement from an initially separable state of two systems.
Due to the axioms of quantum mechanics, perfect cloning of an unknown quantum state is impossible. But since imperfect cloning is still possible, a question arises: ``Is there an optimal quantum cloning machine?'' Buzek and Hillery answered this question and constructed their famous B-H quantum cloning machine. The B-H machine clones the state of an arbitrary single qubit in an optimal manner and hence it is universal. Generalizing this machine for a two-qubit system is straightforward, but during this procedure, except for product states, this machine loses its universality and becomes a state-dependent cloning machine. In this paper, we propose some classes of optimal universal local quantum state cloners for a particular class of two-qubit systems, more precisely, for a class of states with known Schmidt basis. We then extend our machine to the case that the Schmidt basis of the input state is deviated from the local computational basis of the machine. We show that more local quantum coherence existing in the input state corresponds to less fidelity between the input and output states. Also we present two classes of a state-dependent local quantum copying machine. Furthermore, we investigate local broadcasting of two aspects of quantum correlations, i.e., quantum entanglement and quantum discord, defined, respectively, within the entanglement-separability paradigm and from an information-theoretic perspective. The results show that although quantum correlation is, in general, very fragile during the broadcasting procedure, quantum discord is broadcasted more robustly than quantum entanglement.
The structure is investigated of all completely positive quantum operations that transform pure two-qubit input states of a given degree of entanglement in a covariant way. Special cases thereof are quantum NOT operations which transform entangled pure two-qubit input states of a given degree of entanglement into orthogonal states in an optimal way. Based on our general analysis all covariant optimal two-qubit quantum NOT operations are determined. In particular, it is demonstrated that only in the case of maximally entangled input states can these quantum NOT operations be performed perfectly.