2023/12/28 by Thomas Theurer, Kun Fang, Theurer, Thomas +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum many-body systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.17088
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We study entanglement distillation and dilution of states and channels in the single-shot regime. With the help of a recently introduced conversion distance, we provide compact closed-form expressions for the dilution and distillation of pure states and show how this can be used to efficiently calculate these quantities on multiple copies of pure states. These closed-form expressions also allow us to obtain second-order asymptotics. We then prove that the epsilon-single-shot entanglement cost of mixed states is given exactly in terms of an expression containing a suitably smoothed version of the conditional max-entropy. For pure states, this expression reduces to the smoothed max-entropy of the reduced state. Based on these results, we bound the single-shot entanglement cost of channels. We then turn to the one-way entanglement distillation of states and channels and provide bounds in terms of a quantity we denote coherent information of entanglement.