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Detecting quantum non-breaking channels without entanglement

Huan-Yu Ku, Josef Kadlec, Antonín Černoch, Marco Túlio Quintino, Wenbin Zhou, Karel Lemr, Neill Lambert, Adam Miranowicz, Shin-Liang Chen, Franco Nori, Yueh-Nan Chen

Published Jun 30, 2021• 1 citation
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Abstract

Quantum channels, which break entanglement, incompatibility, or nonlocality, are not useful for entanglement-based, one-sided device-independent, or device-independent quantum information processing, respectively. Here, we show that such breaking channels are related to certain temporal quantum correlations, i.e., temporal separability, channel unsteerability, temporal unsteerability, and macrorealism. More specifically, we first define the steerability-breaking channel, which is conceptually similar to the entanglement and nonlocality-breaking channels and prove that it is identical to the incompatibility-breaking channel. Similar to the hierarchy relations of the temporal and spatial quantum correlations, the hierarchy of non-breaking channels is discussed. We then introduce the concept of the channels which break temporal correlations, explain how they are related to the standard breaking channels, and prove the following results: (1) A certain measure of temporal nonseparability can be used to quantify a non-entanglement-breaking channel in the sense that the measure is a memory monotone under the framework of the resource theory of the quantum memory. (2) A non-steerability-breaking channel can be certified with channel steering because the steerability-breaking channel is equivalent to the incompatibility-breaking channel. (3) The temporal steerability and non-macrorealism can, respectively, distinguish the steerability-breaking and the nonlocality-breaking unital channel from their corresponding non-breaking channels. Finally, a two-dimensional depolarizing channel is experimentally implemented as a proof-of-principle example to compare the temporal quantum correlations with non-breaking channels.

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We consider a quantum steering scenario where Alice prepares a bipartite state, sends one subsystem to Bob through a quantum channel, and aims to convince him that their shared state is entangled. Bob, however, will never be convinced if the channel is steering-breaking, that is, if the channel destroys steerability for any input state. To verify that a channel renders a state useless for demonstrating steering, one must consider all possible measurements performed by Alice and check if the conditional states Bob receives admit a local-hidden-state (LHS) model. This is generally a hard problem since it requires considering an infinite number of measurement combinations. Here, we show that the method proposed in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 190401 (2016); Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 190402 (2016)] can be utilized to tackle this problem. Furthermore, owing to the intimate relation between steering and measurement incompatibility, our approach can faithfully certify whether a channel destroys incompatibility for any set of measurements. Finally, we propose an experimental criterion for certifying steering- and incompatibility-breaking channels, which may be of independent interest.
Entanglement breaking channels play a significant role in quantum information theory. In this work we investigate qubit channels through their property of `non-locality breaking', defined in a natural way but within the purview of CHSH nonlocality. This also provides a different perspective on the relationship between entanglement and nonlocality through the dual picture of quantum channels instead of through states. For a channel to be entanglement breaking it is sufficient to `break' the entanglement of maximally entangled states. We provide examples to show that for CHSH nonlocality breaking such a property does not hold in general, though for certain channels and for a restricted class of states for all channels this holds.We also consider channels whose output remains local under SLOCC and call them `strongly non-locality breaking'. We provide a closed form necessary-sufficient condition for any two-qubit state to show hidden CHSH nonlocality, which is likely to be useful for other purposes as well. This in turn allows us to characterize all strongly non-locality breaking qubit channels. It turns out that unital qubit channels breaking nonlocality of maximally entangled states are strongly non-locality breaking while extremal qubit channels cannot be so unless they are entanglement breaking.
High-dimensional entanglement offers significant advantages over its low-dimensional counterpart in various information-processing tasks. However, to harness these advantages, it is crucial that the quantum channels used to store or transmit the subsystems of an entangled system not only preserve entanglement but also maintain its dimensionality above a certain threshold. The maximum entanglement dimension that a channel can preserve is referred to as its effective dimensionality, since the channel cannot be used to transmit information of dimension greater than that in a single use. In this work, we present a method to certify whether a quantum channel can preserve entanglement dimension above a given threshold. Unlike existing approaches, our method is faithful, i.e., it can be applied to any channel, and avoids common assumptions such as preparation of entangled states, auxiliary side channels, or perfect measurement devices. Moreover, the method can be extended to faithfully certify other classes of non-resource-breaking channels, such as non-nonpositive-partial-transpose-breaking channels (non-NPT-breaking channels). Finally, we discuss possible experimental realizations of our certification scheme through explicit examples.
Entanglement breaking channels play a significant role in quantum information theory. In this work we investigate qubit channels through their property of 'non-locality breaking', which is defined in a natural way but within the purview of CHSH non-locality. This also provides a different perspective on the relationship between entanglement and non-locality through the dual picture of quantum channels instead of through states. For a channel to be entanglement breaking, it is sufficient to 'break' the entanglement of maximally entangled states. We provide examples to show that for CHSH nonlocality breaking such a property does not hold in general, although for certain channels and for a restricted class of states for all channels this holds. We also consider channels whose output remains local under SLOCC and call them 'strongly non-locality breaking'. We provide a closed-form necessary-sufficient condition for any two-qubit state to show hidden CHSH non-locality, which is likely to be useful for other purposes as well. This in turn allows us to characterize all strongly non-locality breaking qubit channels. It turns out that unital qubit channels breaking non-locality of maximally entangled states are strongly non-locality breaking while extremal qubit channels cannot be so unless they are entanglement breaking.