Optimal supplier of single-error-type entanglement via coherent-state transmission

TL;DR

This paper introduces an optimal protocol for generating single-error-type entanglement over lossy channels using coherent-state transmission, which is crucial for quantum communication and computation.

Contribution

It provides a subroutine protocol that achieves global optimality for typical convex yield functions, enhancing entanglement generation efficiency.

Findings

Achieves global optimality for convex yield functions

Identifies remote non-destructive parity measurement as optimal

Enhances entanglement generation in lossy channels

Abstract

Compared with entanglement with multiple types of noise, entanglement including only one type of error is a favorable fundamental resource not only for quantum communication but also for distributed quantum computation. We consider protocol that presents single-error-type entanglement for distant qubits via coherent-state transmission over a lossy channel. This protocol is regarded as a subroutine to serve entanglement for larger protocol to yield a final output, such as ebits or pbits. In this paper, we provide a subroutine protocol which achieves the global optimal for typical jointly convex yield functions monotonically non-decreasing with respect to the singlet fraction, such as an arbitrary convex function of a singlet fraction and two-way distillable entanglement/key. Entanglement generation based on remote non-destructive parity measurement protocol [K. Azuma, H. Takeda, M. Koashi, and N. Imoto, Phys. Rev. A 85, 062309 (2012)] is identified as such an optimal subroutine.