Unlimited quantum correlation advantage from bound entanglement

Abstract

Entangled states that cannot be distilled to maximal entanglement are called bound entangled and they are often viewed as too weak to break the limitations of classical models. Here, we show a strongly contrasting result: that bound entangled states, when deployed as resources between two senders who communicate with a receiver, can generate correlation advantages of unlimited magnitude. The proof is based on using many copies of a bound entangled state to assist quantum communication. We show that in order to simulate the correlations predicted by bound entanglement, one requires in the many-copy limit either an entanglement visibility that tends to zero or a diverging amount of overhead communication. This capability of bound entanglement is unlocked by only using elementary single-qubit operations. The result shows that bound entanglement can be a scalable resource for breaking the limitations of physical models without access to entanglement.

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