Necessary and sufficient quantum information characterization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering
Piani, Marco and Watrous, John (2015) Necessary and sufficient quantum information characterization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering. Physical Review Letters, 114 (6). 060404. ISSN 1079-7114 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.060404)
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Abstract
Steering is the entanglement-based quantum effect that embodies the "spooky action at a distance" disliked by Einstein and scrutinized by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen. Here we provide a necessary and sufficient characterization of steering, based on a quantum information processing task: the discrimination of branches in a quantum evolution, which we dub subchannel discrimination. We prove that, for any bipartite steerable state, there are instances of the quantum subchannel discrimination problem for which this state allows a correct discrimination with strictly higher probability than in absence of entanglement, even when measurements are restricted to local measurements aided by one-way communication. On the other hand, unsteerable states are useless in such conditions, even when entangled. We also prove that the above steering advantage can be exactly quantified in terms of the steering robustness, which is a natural measure of the steerability exhibited by the state.
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Piani, Marco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4698-9497 and Watrous, John;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 50771 Dates: DateEvent13 February 2015Published12 February 2015Published Online2 December 2014AcceptedNotes: ©2015 American Physical Society Subjects: Science > Physics Department: Faculty of Science > Physics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 11 Dec 2014 14:49 Last modified: 04 Dec 2024 01:15 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/50771