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Title: Entanglement and perfect discrimination of a class of multiqubit states by local operations and classical communication

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. DIRO, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7 (Canada)

It is shown that while entanglement ensures difficulty in discriminating a set of mutually orthogonal states perfectly by local operations and classical communication (LOCC), entanglement content does not. In particular, for a class of entangled multiqubit states, the maximum number of perfectly LOCC distinguishable orthogonal states is shown to be independent of the average entanglement of the states, and the spatial configuration with respect to which LOCC operations may be carried out. It is also pointed out that for this class, the makeup of an ensemble, that is whether it consists only of entangled states or not, determines the maximum number of perfectly distinguishable states.

OSTI ID:
21413263
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 81, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.022327; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English