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Phys. Rev. A 67, 022310 (2003) [6 pages]

Local permutations of products of Bell states and entanglement distillation

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Jeroen Dehaene*, Maarten Van den Nest, and Bart De Moor
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, ESAT-SCD, Belgium

Frank Verstraete
Department of Mathematical Physics and Astronomy, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium

Received 29 July 2002; published 28 February 2003

We present different algorithms for mixed-state multicopy entanglement distillation for pairs of qubits. Our algorithms perform significantly better than the best-known algorithms. Better algorithms can be derived that are tuned for specific initial states. These algorithms are based on a characterization of the group of all locally realizable permutations of the 4n possible tensor products of n Bell states.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.67.022310
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.67.022310
PACS:
03.67.-a

*Electronic address: Jeroen.Dehaene@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

Also at K. U. Leuven, Leuven ESAT-SCD, Belgium.