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View SchemaImpossibility Criterion for Obtaining Pure Entangled States From Mixed States By Purifying Protocols
| Authors | Ping-Xing Chen, Lin-Mei Liang, Cheng-Zu Li, Ming-Qiu Huang |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0110044 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110044 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.65.012317 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev.A 65, (2002) 012317 |
Abstract
Purifying noisy entanglement is a protocol which can increase the entanglement of a mixed state (as a source)at expense of the entanglement of others(as an ancilla)by collective measurement. A protocol with which one can get a pure entangled state from a mixed state is defined as purifying mixed states. We address a basic question: can one get a pure entangled state from a mixed state? We give a necessary and sufficient condition of purifying a mixed state by fit local operations and classical communication and show that for a class of source states and ancilla states in arbitrary bipartite systems purifying mixed states is impossible by finite rounds of purifying protocols. For $2\otimes 2$ systems, it is proved that arbitrary states cannot be purified by individual measurement. The possible application and meaning of the conclusion are discussed.
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