Catalytic entanglement transformations with noisy hardware
Hemant Sharma (TU Delft - QCD/Terhal Group, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, Qusoft and CWI, Amsterdam)
Aleksandr Mokeev (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Jonas Helsen (Qusoft and CWI, Amsterdam)
Johannes Borregaard (Harvard University)
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Abstract
The availability of certain entangled resource states (catalyst states) can enhance the rate of converting several less entangled states into fewer highly entangled states in a process known as catalytic entanglement concentration (EC). Here, we extend catalytic EC from pure states to mixed states and numerically benchmark it against non-catalytic EC and distillation in the presence of state-preparation errors and operational errors. Furthermore, we analyse the re-usability of catalysts in the presence of such errors. To do this, we introduce a novel recipe for determining the positive-operator valued measurements (POVM) required for EC transformations, which allows for making tradeoffs between the number of communication rounds and the number of auxiliary qubits required. We find that in the presence of low operational errors and depolarising noise, catalytic EC can provide better rates than distillation and non-catalytic EC.