Entanglement-assisted guessing of complementary measurement outcomes
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Author(s)
Berta, Mario
Coles, Patrick J
Wehner, Stephanie
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle implies that if one party (Alice) prepares a system and randomly measures one of two incompatible observables, then another party (Bob) cannot perfectly predict the measurement outcomes. This implication assumes that Bob does not possess an additional system that is entangled to the measured one; indeed, the seminal paper of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) showed that maximal entanglement allows Bob to perfectly win this guessing game. Although not in contradiction, the observations made by EPR and Heisenberg illustrate two extreme cases of the interplay between entanglement and uncertainty. On the one hand, no entanglement means that Bob's predictions must display some uncertainty. Yet on the other hand, maximal entanglement means that there is no more uncertainty at all. Here we follow an operational approach and give an exact relation—an equality—between the amount of uncertainty as measured by the guessing probability and the amount of entanglement as measured by the recoverable entanglement fidelity. From this equality, we deduce a simple criterion for witnessing bipartite entanglement and an entanglement monogamy equality.
Date Issued
2014-12
Date Acceptance
2014-12-01
Citation
Physical Review A, 2014, 90 (6)
ISSN
1050-2947
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review A
Volume
90
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
© 2014 American Physical Society.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Optics
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Physics
UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE
ENTROPIC UNCERTAINTY
QUANTUM MEASUREMENTS
STATE DETERMINATION
INFORMATION
OBSERVABLES
MEMORY
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
062127
Date Publish Online
2014-12-22