Very Strong Irreversibility of Quantum Entanglement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27195v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:58:04 GMT
• Title: Very Strong Irreversibility of Quantum Entanglement
• Abstract summary: The irreversibility of quantum entanglement is known to persist even under the maximal class of operations that do not generate entanglement.<n>We show that any attempt to restore revers necessarily incurs an error that increases exponentially with the number of copies.<n>For the class of completely solvable operations, we construct analyticallypreserving families of antisymmetric states exhibiting the exponential strong-converse irreversibility.
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• Abstract: The manipulation of quantum entanglement is fundamentally irreversible: some mixed entangled states require pure entanglement for their preparation, although no pure entanglement can be recovered from them by local operations and classical communication. This irreversibility is known to persist even under the maximal class of operations that do not generate entanglement, revealing a fundamental distinction between entanglement theory and thermodynamics. We construct cases for which any attempt to restore reversibility necessarily incurs an error that increases exponentially with the number of copies. Technically, we demonstrate a strict separation between the exponential strong-converse distillable entanglement and the exponential strong-converse entanglement cost. Our result resolves a conjecture posed by Lami and Regula (Nat. Phys. 19, 184-189 (2023)) and strengthens it by showing that the irreversibility of entanglement persists even at the level of polynomially (in the number of copies) growing error. We further derive a semidefinite-programming lower bound on the exponential strong-converse cost under non-entangling operations. Finally, for the class of completely PPT-preserving operations, we construct analytically solvable families of antisymmetric states exhibiting the exponential strong-converse irreversibility. Remarkably, to our knowledge, no analogous separation between exponential strong converse cost and the analogous distillable entanglement is currently known even under the more restrictive class of LOCC operations.

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