Practical entanglement distillation scheme using recurrence method and quantum low density parity check codes

  • Authors:
  • H. F. Chau;K. H. Ho

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Physics and Center of Theoretical and Computational Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China;Department of Physics and Center of Theoretical and Computational Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

  • Venue:
  • Quantum Information Processing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Many entanglement distillation schemes use either universal random hashing or breeding as their final step to obtain almost perfect shared EPR pairs. In spite of a high yield, the hardness of decoding a random linear code makes the use of random hashing and breeding infeasible in practice. In this pilot study, we analyze the performance of the recurrence method, a well-known entanglement distillation scheme, with its final random hashing or breeding procedure being replaced by various efficiently decodable quantum codes. Among all the replacements investigated, the one using a certain adaptive quantum low density parity check (QLDPC) code is found to give the highest yield for Werner states over a wide range of noise level--the yield for using this QLDPC code is higher than the first runner up by more than 25% over a wide parameter range. In this respect, the effectiveness of using QLDPC codes in practical entanglement distillation is illustrated.