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View SchemaEquivalence between two-qubit entanglement and secure key distribution
| Authors | Antonio Acin, Lluis Masanes, Nicolas Gisin |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0303053 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0303053 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.167901 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 167901 (2003). |
Abstract
We study the problem of secret key distillation from bipartite states in the scenario where Alice and Bob can only perform measurements at the single-copy level and classically process the obtained outcomes. Even with these limitations, secret bits can be asymptotically distilled by the honest parties from any two-qubit entangled state, under any individual attack. Our results point out a complete equivalence between two-qubit entanglement and secure key distribution: a key can be established through a one-qubit channel if and only if it allows to distribute entanglement. These results can be generalized to higher dimension for all those states that are one-copy distillable.
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