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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

Effective entanglement recovery via operators

Fei Ming, Wei‐Nan Shi, Xiao‐Gang Fan, Liu Ye, Dong Wang

Published Apr 9, 2021• 8 citations
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Abstract

Abstract Entanglement is one of essential quantum resources in quantum information processing, playing an important role during quantum communication and computation. While any system unavoidably interacts with its surrounding environment, this thus will result in decoherence or dissipation effect. With this in mind, a natural question arises: how to recover quantum entanglement under decoherence inducing by the environmental noises. In this work, our attempt is to propose an effective strategy to optimally achieve entanglement recovery. Specifically, we derive a nontrivial condition satisfied by any operation U , i.e. ( U ⊗ I ) † ( U ̃ ⊗ I ) = f ( U ) ( I ⊗ I ) , which will definitely recover the entanglement of an arbitrary two-qubit system, and more importantly offer an explicit physical explanation towards the intrinsic mechanics of the entanglement recovery. By means of derivations, we obtain the appropriate operational strength to realize optimal entanglement recovery through taking advantage of our proposed methods. As illustrations, we apply some local operations complying with our presented strategy on validly protecting entanglement, including PT -symmetry operation, quantum weak measurement and quantum reversal measurement.

DOI
10.1088/1751-8121/abf680

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Abstract We examine the validity of the environment-assisted measurement (EAM) and quantum measurement reversal (QMR) operations in the restoration of distributed entanglement for two-qubit transmission under three typical kinds of noisy quantum channels, i.e. an amplitude damping channel, a phase damping channel and a depolarizing quantum channel. Given the parameters of the Bell-like initial qubits’ state and , we derive exact expressions for the optimal final quantum entanglement, showing explicitly that combining the EAM and QMR operations does indeed help in recovering the distributed entanglement from the various decoherence sources. Comparing with the results obtained using the weak measurement and QMR method, our results show notable superiorities in adaptation scope and success probability.
Entanglement is a vital resource for many quantum information processes. However, the unavoidable interaction between quantum system and its environment will lead to quantum decoherence. So protecting remote entanglement against decoherence is of great importance for realizing quantum information and quantum communication. In fact, there are many types of decoherences. Besides the depolarization and phase damping, amplitude damping is a typical decoherence mechanism. If we monitor the environments to guarantee that no excitation escapes from the system, the amplitude damping is modified into a weak measurement induced amplitude damping of the system. Amplitude damping decoherence can affect both single-qubit quantum states and multipartite entangled states. However, in most of previous quantum state protection schemes, the authors only pay attention to the single-qubit system or two-qubit system. Compared with bipartite entangled states, multipartite entangled states possess many advantages, but the entanglement property of multipartite entangled state is much more complicated than bipartite entanglement, so bipartite entanglement reversal (protection) scheme may not be suitable for multipartite case. Thus, in this paper, according to local pulse series and weak measurement, we propose an effective scheme for protecting two multipartite entangled states against amplitude damping, and these two multipartite states are Cluster state and Maximal slice (MS) state. Cluster state and MS state are two typical classes of multipartite entangled states, which play important roles in quantum computation and communication, respectively. These two states cannot be converted into each other with local operation and classical communication. Owing to its good operational and computable properties, here we choose negativity as a measure to quantify the multipartite entanglement. For the case of MS sate, no matter what the initial parameter is, when the local pulses are exerted on all qubits, the entanglement can be fixed around the entanglement of the initial state. Similarly, in the four-qubit cluster state case, if a series of flip operations is exerted on all qubits, it is shown that the multipartite entanglement can be recovered to the maximum 1.0. All these results show that this protocol can protect remote multipartite entanglement effectively. The physical mechanism behind this scheme is that the weak measurement combining with flip operation can balance the weight of different terms of the state, and move the entanglement toward the initial value. To summarize, our scheme is much simpler and feasible, which may warrant its experimental realization. Moreover, our scheme could be extended to protect other multipartite states.
Entanglement protection from noisy environments is an essential task in practical quantum information and communication. In this paper, we investigate the entanglement recovery of an amplitude-damped tripartite GHZ state by a weak-measurement reversal procedure. In particular, we emphasize the key importance of the inequivalency of probability amplitudes of the tripartite system under the recovery technique. We explore the maximal and non-maximal tripartite entangled state scenarios under amplitude damping noise in the absence and presence of weak measurement reversal procedures. Importantly, the non-maximal entangled state turns out to be a good choice for the entanglement recovery via weak-measurement reversal procedure.
We propose a method to directly recover the degree of entanglement distributed by entanglement swapping in the presence of noise. Our approach introduces a reversing operation that probabilistically undoes the effect of amplitude damping or photon loss on a single entangled pair, enabling heralded recovery of entanglement. We demonstrate that entanglement can be substantially recovered even under strong noise, including parameter regimes where the distributed entanglement would otherwise vanish due to entanglement sudden death. We analyze the effectiveness of the protocol in two representative repeater models, i.e.,~two-way and one-way architectures and identify the optimal reversing strategy. Due to its heralded and single-copy nature, our protocol is readily compatible with other entanglement recovery techniques such as entanglement purification and distillation. Our work provides a practical and experimentally feasible way toward robust entanglement distribution in current and near-term quantum repeater architectures.