Necessary conditions on effective quantum entanglement catalysts

TL;DR

This paper establishes necessary conditions and bounds for catalytic states in quantum entanglement transformations, enhancing understanding of quantum state manipulation under LOCC with potential applications in quantum information processing.

Contribution

It introduces new necessary conditions and bounds for catalytic states and provides a detailed protocol for entanglement-assisted mixed state transformations.

Findings

Necessary conditions for catalytic states based on Schmidt coefficients

Lower bounds on catalytic state dimensions

Protocol for entanglement-assisted mixed state transformation

Abstract

Quantum catalytic transformations play important roles in the transformation of quantum entangled states under local operations and classical communications (LOCC). The key problems in catalytic transformations are the existence and the bounds on the catalytic states. We present the necessary conditions of catalytic states based on a set of points given by the Schmidt coefficients of the entangled source and target states. The lower bounds on the dimensions of the catalytic states are also investigated. Moreover, we give a detailed protocol of quantum mixed state transformation under entanglement-assisted LOCC.