Generic entanglement can be generated efficiently

R. Oliveira, O. C.O. Dahlsten, M. B. Plenio

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Abstract

We find that generic entanglement is physical, in the sense that it can be generated in polynomial time from two-qubit gates picked at random. We prove as the main result that such a process generates the average entanglement of the uniform (unitarily invariant) measure in at most O(N3) steps for N qubits. This is despite an exponentially growing number of such gates being necessary for generating that measure fully on the state space. Numerics furthermore show a variation cutoff allowing one to associate a specific time with the achievement of the uniform measure entanglement distribution. Various extensions of this work are discussed. The results are relevant to entanglement theory and to protocols that assume generic entanglement can be achieved efficiently. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Original languageEnglish
Article number130502
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume98
Issue number13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Mar 2007
Externally publishedYes

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