Abstract
The unavoidable addition of noise during amplification is a well known signature of quantum mechanics. It is at the heart of fundamental results such as the no-cloning theorem, quantum limited metrology, quantum key distribution and the impossibility of increasing entanglement by local operations. Nonetheless one can still avoid the unavoidable by moving to a non-deterministic protocol. This novel concept and a linear optics implementation have been proposed [1] and experimentally realised for the case of amplifying coherent states [2-4], qubits [5,6] and the concentration of phase information [7]. All these were extremely challenging experiments, with only [2] demonstrating entanglement distillation and none directly showing the EPR distillation necessary for application to CV QKD. Furthermore the success probability of these experiments was substantially worse than the theoretical considerations would imply. However as has been noted in [8,9] it is possible to virtually implement noiseless amplification (NLA) and hence entanglement distillation via post-selective measurements, achieving significant distillation with a much improved probability of success.
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