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arXiv:quant-ph/0505174 · Physical Review A

Entanglement can enhance the distinguishability of entanglement-breaking channels

Massimiliano Federico Sacchi

Published Jul 15, 2005• 134 citations
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Abstract

We show the rather counterintuitive result that entangled input states can strictly enhance the distinguishability of two entanglement-breaking channels.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.72.014305

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