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The Existence of Quantum Entanglement Catalysts

Xiaoming Sun, Runyao Duan, Mingsheng Ying

abstract: Without additional resources, it is often impossible to transform one entangled quantum state into another with local quantum operations and classical communication. Jonathan and Plenio [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3566(1999)] presented an interesting example showing that the presence of another state, called a catalyst, enables such a transformation without changing the catalyst. They also pointed out that in general it is very hard to find an analytical condition under which a catalyst exists. In this paper we study the existence of catalysts for two incomparable quantum states. For the simplest case of $2\times 2$ catalysts for transformations from one $4\times 4$ state to another, a necessary and sufficient condition for existence is found. For the general case, we give an efficient polynomial time algorithm to decide whether a $k\times k$ catalyst exists for two $n\times n$ incomparable states, where $k$ is treated as a constant.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0311133
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
12 pages. Presentation part improved. Main results unchanged. Essentially the journal version
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0311133
journal_ref:
IEEE. Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 51, No. 1, January 2005
created:
2003-11-19
updated:
2005-01-18

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