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Finite-Copy Distillability of NPT States in the DiVincenzo Family

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npt-two-copy-distillability-divincenzo-familyQuantum information & computingposed by David P. DiVincenzo, Peter W. Shor, John A. Smolin, Barbara M. Terhal, Ashish V. Thapliyal, 2000recorded: partial

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Whether negative-partial-transpose states undistillable from one copy become distillable from finitely many copies is a basic open problem in entanglement theory. In the canonical two-parameter DiVincenzo family used as its symmetry-reduced testbed, a distinguished one-copy-undistillable state is shown to be two-copy distillable in every local dimension d >= 3, disproving the conjecture that the family's whole one-copy-undistillable region stays undistillable for arbitrarily many copies.

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Partial deliberately: the NPT bound entanglement problem itself is untouched. What falls is the conjecture about the canonical family, and the paper is explicit that a substantial neighbouring region remains unresolved while another is known two-copy undistillable.

The NPT bound entanglement problem is one of the standing open problems of entanglement theory, known throughout quantum information and carried on its problem lists for 25 years.

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