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Title: Distillation protocols that involve local distinguishing: Composing upper and lower bounds on locally accessible information

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
;  [1];  [2]
  1. ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona) (Spain)
  2. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Hannover, D-30167 Hannover (Germany)

We find a universal lower bound on locally accessible information for arbitrary bipartite quantum ensembles, when one of the parties is two dimensional. In higher dimensions and in a higher number of parties, the bound is on accessible information by separable operations. We show that for any given density matrix (of an arbitrary number of parties and dimensions), there exists an ensemble, which averages to the given density matrix and whose locally accessible information saturates the lower bound. Moreover, we give a general method to obtain bounds on the yield of singlets in distillation protocols that involves local distinguishing, by using lower and upper bounds on locally accessible information. We then illustrate it by using our lower bound, along with a previously obtained upper bound, on locally accessible information.

OSTI ID:
20974723
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 74, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.052332; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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