arXiv:quant-ph/0412188 · Optics and Spectroscopy
Asymmetric universal entangling machine
D. B. Horoshko, S. Ya. Kilin, Mikhail I. Kolobov
Abstract
We give a definition of an asymmetric universal entangling machine which entangles a system in an unknown state to a specially prepared ancilla. The machine produces a fixed state-independent amount of entanglement in exchange for a fixed degradation of the system state fidelity. We describe explicitly such a machine for any quantum system having d levels and prove its optimality. We show that a d 2-dimensional ancilla is sufficient for reaching optimality. The introduced machine is a generalization to a number of widely investigated universal quantum devices such as the symmetric and asymmetric quantum cloners, the symmetric and antisymmetric quantum entanglers, the quantum information distributor and the universal-NOT gate.