Fundamental limitations to key distillation from Gaussian states with Gaussian operations

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033153" target="_blank" >https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033153</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033153" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033153</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Fundamental limitations to key distillation from Gaussian states with Gaussian operations

Original language description

We establish fundamental upper bounds on the amount of secret key that can be extracted from quantum Gaussian states by using local Gaussian operations, local classical processing, and public communication. For one-way public communication or when two-way public communication is allowed but Alice and Bob first perform destructive local Gaussian measurements, we prove that the key is bounded by the Rényi-2 Gaussian entanglement of formation EGF,2. The saturation of this inequality for pure Gaussian states provides an operational interpretation of the Rényi-2 entropy of entanglement as the secret key rate of pure Gaussian states accessible with Gaussian operations and one-way communication. In the general setting of two-way communication and arbitrary interactive protocols, we argue that 2EGF,2 still serves as an upper bound on the extractable key. We conjecture that the factor of 2 is spurious, suggesting that EGF,2 coincides with the secret key rate of Gaussian states under Gaussian measurements and two-way public communication. We use these results to prove a gap between the secret key rates obtainable with arbitrary versus Gaussian operations. This gap is observed for states produced by sending one half of a two-mode squeezed vacuum through a pure loss channel, in the regime of sufficiently low squeezing or sufficiently high transmissivity. Finally, for a wide class of Gaussian states, including all two-mode states, we prove a recently proposed conjecture on the equality between EGF,2 and the Gaussian intrinsic entanglement. The unified entanglement quantifier emerging from such an equality is then endowed with a direct operational interpretation as the value of a quantum teleportation game.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10306 - Optics (including laser optics and quantum optics)

Project

<a href="/en/project/8C22002" target="_blank" >8C22002: Continuous-Variable Multi-User Quantum Key Distribution for 5G and distributed storage applications</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Physical Review Research

ISSN

2643-1564

e-ISSN

2643-1564

Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

"033153-1"-"033153-24"

UT code for WoS article

001079200800003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85172910850