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We show that for a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, there exist observables that induce a tensor product structure such that the entanglement properties of any pure state can be tailored. In particular, we provide an explicit, finite method for constructing observables in an unstructured d-dimensional system so that an arbitrary known pure state has any Schmidt decomposition with respect to an induced bipartite tensor product structure. In effect, this article demonstrates that in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, entanglement properties can always be shifted from the state to the observables and all pure states are equivalent as entanglement resources in the ideal case of complete control of observables.PACS numbers: 03.65.Aa, 03.65.UdThe entanglement of a quantum state is only defined with respect to a tensor product structure within the Hilbert space that represents the quantum system. In turn, a tensor product structure of the Hilbert space is induced by the algebra of observables. Zanardi and colleagues [1,2] have provided criteria for the algebra of observables of a finite-dimensional system to induce a tensor product structure. The algebra of observables must be partitioned into subalgebras that satisfy two mathematical requirements, the subalgebras must be independent and complete (see Corollary 3 for a precise formulation of Zanardi's Theorem), and one physical requirement, the subalgebras must be locally accessible. Such observableinduced partitions of the Hilbert space have been referred to as virtual subsystems and can be thought of as a generalization from entanglement between subsystems to entanglement between degrees of freedom (see also [3,4]). This mathematical framework has found applications to studies of multi-level encoding [5], decoherence [6], operator quantum error correction [7], entanglement in fermionic systems [8], single-particle entanglement [9,10], and entanglement in scattering systems [11].In this Letter, we extend this mathematical framework and prove what we call the Tailored Observables Theorem (Theorem 6): observables can be constructed such that any pure state in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space H = C d has any amount of entanglement possible for any given factorization of the dimension d of H. This means all pure states are equivalent as entanglement resources in the ideal case of complete control of observables. To establish the framework, we provide a brief, relatively self-contained introduction to Zanardi's Theorem and obtain some necessary preliminary results about observable algebras in finite dimensions. We then prove Theorem 6, which applies to bipartite tensor product structures, and present an illustrative example. We will also provide a corollary of the theorem (Corollary 7) applied to multipartite tensor product structures. Before delving into the technical details, we present a more intuitive discussion of this result. this Hilbert space could represent states of a quantum system composed from N subsystems each represented by Hilbert spaces H i = C ki . Fo...
We investigate the error tolerance of quantum cryptographic protocols using d-level systems. In particular, we focus on prepare-and-measure schemes that use two mutually unbiased bases and a key-distillation procedure with two-way classical communication. For arbitrary quantum channels, we obtain a sufficient condition for secret-key distillation which, in the case of isotropic quantum channels, yields an analytic expression for the maximally tolerable error rate of the cryptographic protocols under consideration. The difference between the tolerable error rate and its theoretical upper bound tends slowly to zero for sufficiently large dimensions of the information carriers.
Positive maps which are not completely positive are used in quantum information theory as witnesses for convex sets of states, in particular as entanglement witnesses and more generally as witnesses for states having Schmidt number not greater than k. It is known that such witnesses are related to k-positive maps. In this article we propose a new proof for the correspondence between vectors having Schmidt number k and k-positive maps using Jamio lkowski's criterion for positivity of linear maps; to this aim, we also investigate the precise notion of the term "Jamio lkowski isomorphism". As consequences of our proof we get the Jamio lkowski criterion for complete positivity, and we find a special case of a result by Choi, namely that k-positivity implies complete positivity, if k is the dimension of the smaller one of the Hilbert spaces on which the operators act.
The general conditions are discussed which quantum state purification protocols have to fulfill in order to be capable of purifying Bell-diagonal qubit-pair states, provided they consist of steps that map Bell-diagonal states to Bell-diagonal states and they finally apply a suitably chosen Calderbank-Shor-Steane code to the outcome of such steps. As a main result a necessary and a sufficient condition on asymptotic correctability are presented, which relate this problem to the magnitude of a characteristic exponent governing the relation between bit and phase errors under the purification steps. These conditions allow a straightforward determination of maximum tolerable bit error rates of quantum key distribution protocols whose security analysis can be reduced to the purification of Bell-diagonal states.
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