Coordinately Assisted Distillation of Quantum Coherence in Multipartite System

TL;DR

This paper introduces a simple formula for assisted coherence distillation in multipartite quantum systems, enabling practical experimental research and revealing relationships with multipartite quantum correlations.

Contribution

It provides the first study of assisted coherence distillation in multipartite systems with a practical formula and experimental validation.

Findings

The formula simplifies assisted coherence distillation analysis.

Experimental verification with tripartite states supports the theoretical results.

Monogamy-like inequalities constrain coherence distribution in multipartite systems.

Abstract

We investigate the issue of assisted coherence distillation in the asymptotic limit (considering infinite copies of the resource states), by coordinately performing the identical local operations on the auxiliary systems of each copy. When we further restrict the coordinate operations to projective measurements, the distillation process is branched into many sub-processes. Finally, a simple formula is given that the assisted distillable coherence should be the maximal average coherence of the residual states. The formula makes the experimental research of assisted coherence distillation possible and convenient, especially for the case that the system and its auxiliary are in mixed states. By using the formula,\ we for the first time study the assisted coherence distillation in multipartite systems. Monogamy-like inequalities are given to constrain the distribution of the assisted distillable coherence in the subsystems. Taking three-qubit system for example, we experimentally prepare two types of tripartite correlated states, i.e., the $W$-type and GHZ-type states in a linear optical setup, and experimentally explore the assisted coherence distillation. Theoretical and experimental results agree well to verify the distribution inequalities given by us. Three measures of multipartite quantum correlation are also considered. The close relationship between the assisted coherence distillation and the genuine multipartite correlation is revealed.