We consider a scenario of remote state preparation of qubits where a single copy of an entangled state is shared between Alice and several Bobs who sequentially perform unsharp single-particle measurements. We show that a substantial number of Bobs c
an optimally and reliably prepare the qubit in Alices lab exceeding the classical realm. There can be at most 16 Bobs in a sequence when the state is chosen from the equatorial circle of the Bloch sphere. In general, depending upon the choice of a circle from the Bloch sphere, the optimum number of Bobs ranges from 12 for the worst choice, to become remarkably very large corresponding to circles in the polar regions, in case of an initially shared maximally entangled state. We further show that the bound on the number of observers successful in implementing remote state preparation is higher for maximally entangled initial states than that for non-maximally entangled initial states.
Generating entanglement between more parties is one of the central tasks and challenges in the backdrop of building quantum technologies. Here we propose a measurement-based protocol for producing multipartite entangled states which can be later fed
into some network for realizing suitable quantum protocols. We consider weak entangling measurement on two parties as the basic unit of operation to create entanglement between more parties starting from an entangled state with a lesser number of parties and auxiliary systems in the form of a single-qubit or entangled state itself. We call the introduced expansion procedure, multipartite entanglement inflation. In the context of inflating bipartite entanglement to more number of parties, surprisingly, maximally entangled states as inputs turn out to be worse than that of the non-maximally entangled states, Haar uniformly generated pure states having a moderate amount of entanglement and the Werner state with a certain threshold noise. We also report that the average multipartite entanglement created from the initial Greenberger Horne Zeilinger- and the W- class states are almost same. Interestingly, we also observe that for Haar uniformly generated pure states, unentangled auxiliary systems are sometimes more advantageous than the protocol with multiple copies of the initial entangled states.
Entangled states are undoubtedly an integral part of various quantum information processing tasks. On the other hand, absolutely separable states which cannot be made entangled under any global unitary operations are useless from the resource theoret
ic perspective, and hence identifying non-absolutely separable states can be an important issue for designing quantum technologies. Here we report that nonlinear witness operators provide significant improvements in detecting non-absolutely separable states over their linear analogs, by invoking examples of states in various dimensions. We also address the problem of closing detection loophole and find critical efficiency of detectors above which no fake detection of non-absolutely separable (non-absolutely positive partial transposed) states is possible.
PT-symmetric quantum theory does not require the Hermiticity property of observables and hence allows a rich class of dynamics. Based on PT-symmetric quantum theory, various counter-intuitive phenomena like faster evolution than that allowed in stand
ard quantum mechanics, single-shot discrimination of nonorthogonal states has been reported invoking Gedanken experiments. By exploiting open-system experimental set-up as well as by computing the probability of distinguishing two states, we prove here that if a source produces an entangled state shared between two parties, Alice and Bob, situated in a far-apart location, the information about the operations performed by Alice whose subsystem evolves according to PT-symmetric Hamiltonian can be gathered by Bob, if the density matrix is in complex Hilbert space. Employing quantum simulation of PT-symmetric evolution, feasible with currently available technologies, we also propose a scheme of sharing quantum random bit-string between two parties when one of them has access to a source generating pseudo-random numbers. We find evidence that the task becomes more efficient with the increase of dimension.
Characterizing multipartite quantum correlations beyond two parties is of utmost importance for building cutting edge quantum technologies, although the comprehensive picture is still missing. Here we investigate quantum correlations (QCs) present in
a multipartite system by exploring connections between monogamy score (MS), localizable quantum correlations (LQC), and genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) content of the state. We find that the frequency distribution of GME for Dicke states with higher excitations resembles that of random states. We show that there is a critical value of GME beyond which all states become monogamous and it is investigated by considering different powers of MS which provide various layers of monogamy relations. Interestingly, such a relation between LQC and MS as well as GME does not hold. States having a very low GME (low monogamy score, both positive and negative) can localize a high amount of QCs in two parties. We also provide an upper bound to the sum of bipartite QC measures including LQC for random states and establish a gap between the actual upper bound and the algebraic maximum.
In order to understand the resourcefulness of a natural quantum system in quantum communication tasks, we study the dense coding capacity (DCC) and teleportation fidelity (TF) of Haar uniformly generated random multipartite states of various ranks. W
e prove that when a rank-2 two-qubit state, a Werner state, and a pure state possess the same amount of entanglement, the DCC of a rank-2 state belongs to the envelope made by pure and Werner states. In a similar way, we obtain an upper bound via the generalized Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state for rank-2 three-qubit states when the dense coding with two senders and a single receiver is performed and entanglement is measured in the senders:receiver bipartition. The normalized frequency distribution of DCC for randomly generated two-, three- and four-qubit density matrices with global as well as local decodings at the receivers end are reported. The estimation of mean DCC for two-qubit states is found to be in good agreement with the numerical simulations. Universally, we observe that the performance of random states for dense coding as well as teleportation decreases with the increase of the rank of states which we have shown to be surmounted by the local pre-processing operations performed on the shared states before starting the protocols, irrespective of the rank of the states. The local pre-processing employed here is based on positive operator valued measurements along with classical communication and we show that unlike dense coding with two-qubit random states, senders operations are always helpful to probabilistically enhance the capabilities of implementing dense coding as well as teleportation.
Starting from several copies of bipartite noisy entangled states, we design a global and optimal local measurement-based protocol in one- and two-dimensional lattices by which any two or more prefix sites can be connected via entanglement. Production
of bipartite as well as multipartite entangled states in a network is verified in a device independent way through the violation of Bell inequalities with two settings per site and with continuous range of settings. We also note that if the parties refuse to perform local measurements, the entanglement distribution scheme fails. We obtain critical values of noise allowed in the initial state so that the resulting output state show nonlocal correlation in different networks with arbitrary number of connections. We report that by employing our method, it is possible to create a Bell-violating multipartite entangled state from non-Bell violating bipartite states in an one-dimensional lattice with minimal coordination number being six. Such a feature of superadditivity in violation can also be observed in a triangular two dimensional lattice but not in a square lattice.
Complete measurements, while providing maximal information gain, results in destruction of the shared entanglement. In the standard teleportation scheme, the senders measurement on the shared entangled state between the sender and the receiver has th
at consequence. We propose here a teleportation scheme involving weak measurements which can sustain entanglement upto a certain level so that the reusability of the shared resource state is possible. The measurements are chosen in such a way that it is weak enough to retain entanglement and hence can be reused for quantum tasks, yet adequately strong to ensure quantum advantage in the protocol. In this scenario, we report that at most six sender-receiver duos can reuse the state, when the initial shared state is entangled in a finite neighborhood of the maximally entangled state and for a suitable choice of weak measurements. However, we observe that the reusability number decreases with the decrease in the entanglement of the initial shared state. Among the weakening strategies studied, Bell measurement admixed with white noise performs better than any other low-rank weak measurements in this situation.
Quantum temporal correlations exhibited by violations of Leggett-Garg Inequality (LGI) and Temporal Steering Inequality (TSI) are in general found to be non-increasing under decoherence channels when probed on two-qubit pure entangled states. We stud
y the action of decoherence channels, such as amplitude damping, phase-damping and depolarising channels when partial memory is introduced in a way such that two consecutive uses of the channels are time-correlated. We show that temporal correlations demonstrated by violations of the above temporal inequalities can be protected against decoherence using the effect of memory.
We consider a quantum particle (walker) on a line who coherently chooses to jump to the left or right depending on the result of toss of a quantum coin. The lengths of the jumps are considered to be independent and identically distributed quenched Po
isson random variables. We find that the spread of the walker is significantly inhibited, whereby it resides in the near-origin region, with respect to the case when there is no disorder. The scaling exponent of the quenched-averaged dispersion of the walker is sub-ballistic but super-diffusive. We also show that the features are universal to a class of sub- and super-Poissonian distributed quenched randomized jumps.
