Entanglement Purification with the Exchange Interaction

Abstract

Entanglement purification allows the creation of qubit pairs of arbitrarily high fidelity with respect to a maximally entangled state, starting from a larger number of low-fidelity pairs. Purification requires quantum memory, a role for which electron spins are well suited. However, using existing recurrence protocols involving symmetric local two-qubit operations for spin qubits turns out to be rather unpractical. We present an efficient purification protocol requiring only a single pulsed Heisenberg- or XY-type exchange interaction between two qubit pairs. In contrast to known protocols, we allow for asymmetric bilateral two-qubit operations where the two communication parties operate differently on their qubits. In the optimal version of our protocol, the local two-qubit interactions in the case of Heisenberg exchange correspond to the $\sqrt{\mathrm{SWAP}}$ gate and its inverse.

5 pages, 3 figures

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