Flower States Reveal a Hidden Asymmetry in the Quantum World

Researchers have uncovered a striking irreversibility gap in quantum entanglement using so-called flower states.

The study shows that creating these states can require vastly more entanglement than can be recovered, while challenging the role of squashed entanglement as a reliable measure under non-entangling operations. The results also reveal exact distillation limits and a surprisingly simple communication protocol that reaches them.

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