title: Distillation of multipartite entanglement by complementary stabilizer measurements.
abstract: We propose a scheme of multipartite entanglement distillation driven by a complementary pair of stabilizer measurements to distill directly a wider range of states beyond the stabilizer code states (such as the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states). We make our idea explicit by constructing a recurrence protocol for the 3-qubit state [formula: see text]. Noisy states resulting from typical decoherence can be directly purified in a few steps, if their initial fidelity is larger than a threshold. For general input mixed states, we observe distillations to hierarchical fixed points, i.e., not only to the state but also to the 2-qubit Bell pair, depending on their initial entanglement.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: Akimasa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miyake
authors.forename: Hans J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Briegel