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Samgeeth Puliyil

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Exact Resource Laws for Passive Wavelength Routing in Entanglement Networks

Entanglement-based networks provide a scalable framework for multiuser quantum communication by passively routing spectrally correlated photon pairs across interconnected nodes. Several wavelength-allocation schemes have been demonstrated experimentally, but these designs do not yet give a general way to determine how spectral use, receiver load, repeated connections, and fan-out constrain one another. We address this problem through the network's connectivity graph, where the wavelength assignment becomes a resource-optimization problem. For one-sided fan-out, assigning each link to a center and grouping links with the same center gives an exact optimization for arbitrary networks and fan-out limits. We solve this for complete networks and for complete networks in which every user has one excluded partner. Allowing both conjugate wavelengths to fan out changes the resource landscape: a balanced binary hierarchy attains the minimum spectral-layer count for a complete network while reducing the maximum receiver load to logarithmic in the number of users. An eight-user complete network then makes explicit the competing roles of spectral efficiency, receiver load, redundancy, and fan-out. We include the passive-splitter loss and the dependence of the key rate on the delivered pair flux to determine the minimum total pair-generation rate required to meet the prescribed targets. Finally, we formulate the corresponding BBM92 quantum key distribution (QKD) secret-key-rate analysis for a continuous-wave-pumped broadband source, with true and accidental coincidences evaluated between detector channels at the two endpoint users and relative layer pair-generation rates fixed by the source spectrum. This framework, therefore, provides a direct route from exact network resource laws to the design and comparison of passive entanglement architectures under experimentally specified hardware constraints.

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Semi-device-independent channel identification with communication matrices

We look into the task of differentiating between any two quantum channels and reconstructing them from the obtained measurement statistics with possibly limited information about the experimental set-up. We employ the communication matrix formalism where the measurement statistics of a prepare-and-measure scenario is represented as a stochastic communication matrix. In order to differentiate between any two quantum channels, the informational completeness of the set-up is both necessary and sufficient. On the other hand, if we want to uniquely characterize any quantum channel, in addition we also need to have a complete description of the set-up. We show that in many important cases we can deduce this information directly from the communication matrix of the set-up before applying the channel. Given that we trust the dimension of the system, we show that we can deduce the information completeness of the set-up directly from the rank of the communication matrix. Furthermore, we show that another quantity of the communication matrix, called the information storability, can be used to self-test the set-up (up to unitary or antiunitary freedom) for an important class of states and measurements. This provides us a semi-device-independent way to identify quantum channels from the prepare-and-measure statistics. Lastly, we consider scenarios where we might have some additional information about the channels or additional resources at our disposal which could help us relax some of the assumptions of the proposed scenario.

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Thermodynamic Signatures of Genuinely Multipartite Entanglement

Theory of bipartite entanglement shares profound similarities with thermodynamics. In this letter we extend this connection to multipartite quantum systems where entanglement appears in different forms with genuine entanglement being the most exotic one. We propose thermodynamic quantities that capture signature of genuineness in multipartite entangled states. Instead of entropy, these quantities are defined in terms of energy -- particularly the difference between global and local extractable works (ergotropies) that can be stored in quantum batteries. Some of these quantities suffice as faithful measures of genuineness and to some extent distinguish different classes of genuinely entangled states. Along with scrutinizing properties of these measures we compare them with the other existing genuine measures, and argue that they can serve the purpose in a better sense. Furthermore, generality of our approach allows to define suitable functions of ergotropies capturing the signature of $k$-nonseparability that characterizes qualitatively different manifestations of entanglement in multipartite systems.

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