dorsal/arxiv
View SchemaEntanglement distribution by an arbitrarily inept delivery service
| Authors | S. J. Jones, H. M. Wiseman, D. T. Pope |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0504112 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0504112 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.022330 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 72, 022330 (2005) |
Abstract
We consider the scenario where a company C manufactures in bulk pure entangled pairs of particles, each pair intended for a distinct pair of distant customers. Unfortunately, its delivery service is inept - the probability that any given customer pair receives its intended particles is S, and the customers cannot detect whether an error has occurred. Remarkably, no matter how small S is, it is still possible for C to distribute entanglement by starting with non-maximally entangled pairs. We determine the maximum entanglement distributable for a given S, and also determine the ability of the parties to perform nonlocal tasks with the qubits they receive.
{
"annotation_id": "36ddf971-6d79-4143-963d-757ed1f9ea17",
"date_created": "2026-03-02T18:02:15.967000Z",
"date_modified": "2026-03-02T18:02:15.967000Z",
"file_hash": "ff2724262e22d518d77279d3be3081db656fc83ab8a7812c2d00cc10324a792f",
"private": false,
"record": {
"abstract": "We consider the scenario where a company C manufactures in bulk pure\nentangled pairs of particles, each pair intended for a distinct pair of distant\ncustomers. Unfortunately, its delivery service is inept - the probability that\nany given customer pair receives its intended particles is S, and the customers\ncannot detect whether an error has occurred. Remarkably, no matter how small S\nis, it is still possible for C to distribute entanglement by starting with\nnon-maximally entangled pairs. We determine the maximum entanglement\ndistributable for a given S, and also determine the ability of the parties to\nperform nonlocal tasks with the qubits they receive.",
"arxiv_id": "quant-ph/0504112",
"authors": [
"S. J. Jones",
"H. M. Wiseman",
"D. T. Pope"
],
"categories": [
"quant-ph"
],
"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.72.022330",
"journal_ref": "Phys. Rev. A 72, 022330 (2005)",
"title": "Entanglement distribution by an arbitrarily inept delivery service",
"url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0504112"
},
"schema_id": "dorsal/arxiv",
"source": {
"execution_id": "3009d9a1-91b9-4e8a-a30c-c92e703beb89",
"id": "arXiv Dataset IDs",
"type": "Model",
"variant": "snapshot-2026-03-01",
"version": "0.1.0"
},
"user_id": 1000002
}