Nery R V, Taddei M M, Sahium P, Walborn S P, Aolita L, Aguilar G H
Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, P. O. Box 68528, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-972, Brazil.
Phys Rev Lett. 2020 Mar 27;124(12):120402. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.120402.
We show-both theoretically and experimentally-that Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering can be distilled. We present a distillation protocol that outputs a perfectly correlated system-the singlet assemblage-in the asymptotic infinite-copy limit, even for inputs that are arbitrarily close to being unsteerable. As figures of merit for the protocol's performance, we introduce the assemblage fidelity and the singlet-assemblage fraction. These are potentially interesting quantities on their own beyond the current scope. Remarkably, the protocol works well also in the nonasymptotic regime of few copies, in the sense of increasing the singlet-assemblage fraction. We demonstrate the efficacy of the protocol using a hyperentangled photon pair encoding two copies of a two-qubit state. This represents to our knowledge the first observation of deterministic steering concentration. Our findings are not only fundamentally important but may also be useful for semi-device-independent protocols in noisy quantum networks.
我们通过理论和实验证明,爱因斯坦 - 波多尔斯基 - 罗森(Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen)引导可以被提纯。我们提出了一种提纯协议,即使对于任意接近不可引导的输入,在渐近无限副本极限下也能输出一个完全相关的系统——单重态集合。作为该协议性能的品质因数,我们引入了集合保真度和单重态 - 集合分数。这些量本身在当前范围之外也可能具有潜在的趣味性。值得注意的是,从增加单重态 - 集合分数的意义上讲,该协议在少量副本的非渐近区域也能很好地工作。我们使用编码两个两比特态副本的超纠缠光子对证明了该协议的有效性。据我们所知,这代表了确定性引导浓缩的首次观测。我们的发现不仅具有根本重要性,而且可能对噪声量子网络中的半设备无关协议有用。