Low-Dimensional Bound Entanglement With One-Way Distillable Cryptographic Key

Karol Horodecki, Łukasz Pańkowski, Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 2008

In this paper, we provide a class of bound entangled states that have positive distillable secure key rate. The smallest state of this kind is 4 otimes 4, which shows that peculiar security contained in bound entangled states does not need high-dimensional systems. We show that for these states a positive key rate can be obtained byone-wayDevetak-Winter (DW) protocol. Subsequently, the volume of bound entangled key-distillable states formotimesnHilbert space withm,n> 4 is shown to be nonzero. We provide a scheme of verification of cryptographic quality of experimentally prepared state in terms of local observables. Proposed set of seven collective settings is proven to be optimal in number of settings.

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