Geometrical constructions of purity testing protocols and their applications to quantum communication

Abstract

Purity testing protocols (PTPs), i.e., protocols that decide with high probability whether or not a distributed bipartite quantum state is maximally entangled, have been proven to be a useful tool in many quantum communication applications. In this paper, we provide geometrical constructions for such protocols that originate directly from classical linear error correcting codes (LECCs), in a way that the properties of the resulting PTPs are completely determined from those of the LECCs used in the construction. We investigate the implications of our results in various tasks, including error detection, entanglement purification for general quantum error models and quantum message authentication.