Four-party unlockable bound entangled state

John A. Smolin
Phys. Rev. A 63, 032306 – Published 9 February 2001
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Abstract

I present a four-party unlockable bound entangled state, that is, a four-party quantum state which cannot be written in a separable form and from which no pure entanglement can be distilled by local quantum operations and classical communication among the parties, and yet when any two of the parties come together in the same laboratory they can perform a measurement which enables the other two parties to create a pure maximally entangled state between them without coming together. This unlocking ability can be viewed in two ways, either as a determination of which Bell state is shared in the mixture or as a kind of quantum teleportation with cancellation of Pauli operators.

  • Received 31 January 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.63.032306

©2001 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

John A. Smolin*

  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598

  • *Email address: smolin@watson.ibm.com

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Vol. 63, Iss. 3 — March 2001

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