Quantum macroscopicity versus distillation of macroscopic superpositions

被引:14
作者
Yadin, Benjamin [1 ]
Vedral, Vlatko [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Oxford, Clarendon Lab, Atom & Laser Phys, Oxford OX1 3PU, England
[2] Natl Univ Singapore, Ctr Quantum Technol, Singapore 117543, Singapore
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2015年 / 92卷 / 02期
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会; 新加坡国家研究基金会;
关键词
STATES; ENTANGLEMENT; COMPUTATION; LIMITS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevA.92.022356
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We suggest a way to quantify a type of macroscopic entanglement via distillation of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states by local operations and classical communication. We analyze how this relates to an existing measure of quantum macroscopicity based on the quantum Fisher information in several examples. Both cluster states and Kitaev surface code states are found to not be macroscopically quantum but can be distilled into macroscopic superpositions. We look at these distillation protocols in more detail and ask whether they are robust to perturbations. One key result is that one-dimensional cluster states are not distilled robustly but higher-dimensional cluster states are.
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