A simplification of entanglement purification

Abstract

An idea of hybrid maps is proposed to establish standard entanglement purification protocols which guarantee to purify any distillable state to a desired maximally entangled pure state all by the standard purification local operations and classical communications. The protocols proposed in this work, in which two state transformations are used, perform better than the IBM and Oxford protocols in the sense that they require fewer operation times in yielding a same amount of the desired pure state. One of the proposed protocol in this work can even lead to a higher improved output yield when it is combined with the hashing protocol, as compared with the combined algorithm consisting of the Oxford and the hashing protocol.