Bounds on Instantaneous Nonlocal Quantum Computation

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Main Authors: Gonzales, Alvin, Chitambar, Eric
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author Gonzales, Alvin
Chitambar, Eric
author_facet Gonzales, Alvin
Chitambar, Eric
contents Instantaneous nonlocal quantum computation refers to a process in which spacelike separated parties simulate a nonlocal quantum operation on their joint systems through the consumption of pre-shared entanglement. To prevent a violation of causality, this simulation succeeds up to local errors that can only be corrected after the parties communicate classically with one another. However, this communication is non-interactive, and it involves just the broadcasting of local measurement outcomes. We refer to this operational paradigm as local operations and broadcast communication (LOBC) to distinguish it from the standard local operations and (interactive) classical communication (LOCC). In this paper, we show that an arbitrary two-qubit gate can be implemented by LOBC with $ε$-error using $O(\log(1/ε))$ entangled bits (ebits). This offers an exponential improvement over the best known two-qubit protocols, whose ebit costs behave as $O(1/ε)$. We also consider the family of binary controlled gates on dimensions $d_A\otimes d_B$. We find that any hermitian gate of this form can be implemented by LOBC using a single shared ebit. In sharp contrast, a lower bound of $\log d_B$ ebits is shown in the case of generic (i.e. non-hermitian) gates from this family, even when $d_A=2$. This demonstrates an unbounded gap between the entanglement costs of LOCC and LOBC gate implementation. Whereas previous lower bounds on the entanglement cost for instantaneous nonlocal computation restrict the minimum dimension of the needed entanglement, we bound its entanglement entropy. To our knowledge this is the first such lower bound of its kind.
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spellingShingle Bounds on Instantaneous Nonlocal Quantum Computation
Gonzales, Alvin
Chitambar, Eric
Quantum Physics
Instantaneous nonlocal quantum computation refers to a process in which spacelike separated parties simulate a nonlocal quantum operation on their joint systems through the consumption of pre-shared entanglement. To prevent a violation of causality, this simulation succeeds up to local errors that can only be corrected after the parties communicate classically with one another. However, this communication is non-interactive, and it involves just the broadcasting of local measurement outcomes. We refer to this operational paradigm as local operations and broadcast communication (LOBC) to distinguish it from the standard local operations and (interactive) classical communication (LOCC). In this paper, we show that an arbitrary two-qubit gate can be implemented by LOBC with $ε$-error using $O(\log(1/ε))$ entangled bits (ebits). This offers an exponential improvement over the best known two-qubit protocols, whose ebit costs behave as $O(1/ε)$. We also consider the family of binary controlled gates on dimensions $d_A\otimes d_B$. We find that any hermitian gate of this form can be implemented by LOBC using a single shared ebit. In sharp contrast, a lower bound of $\log d_B$ ebits is shown in the case of generic (i.e. non-hermitian) gates from this family, even when $d_A=2$. This demonstrates an unbounded gap between the entanglement costs of LOCC and LOBC gate implementation. Whereas previous lower bounds on the entanglement cost for instantaneous nonlocal computation restrict the minimum dimension of the needed entanglement, we bound its entanglement entropy. To our knowledge this is the first such lower bound of its kind.
title Bounds on Instantaneous Nonlocal Quantum Computation
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00994