Remote Preparation Research Articles

Zoom to the Virtual Room: The Shift to Remote Early Childhood Observational Assessments.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led prevention researchers to increasingly use remote observational procedures given social distancing directives associated with the pandemic. However, few studies have used remote observational procedures with children and their caregivers, with scant literature describing procedures with socioeconomically, racially, and ethnically diverse families. This manuscript describes processes to pivot to remote assessment of parent and child observations in the context of a longitudinal study examining the effects of a postpartum depression preventive intervention on responsive parenting and child self-regulation. We conducted remote assessments across three timepoints-42, 48, and 54 months-with 133 low-income and racially and ethnically diverse parent-child dyads. Details are provided on remote observation preparation and setup, as well as adaptation of observational assessments. Lessons learned are shared on the use of technology, scheduling considerations, parent's role as facilitator, maintaining child engagement, and cost considerations. We demonstrated excellent inter-rater reliability between independent coders on all assessments, suggesting the quality of remote assessments was conducive for analysis. Surveys with families completing a remote assessment found that most felt it was easy to participate in remote assessments and their child had a positive experience. Most parents preferred virtual visits if given an option for future assessments. Much prevention research utilizes observational measures that are less subject to bias. Our study demonstrated that research teams can effectively and reliably pivot to remote assessment with racially and ethnically diverse, low socioeconomic families, thereby providing guidance to other prevention researchers considering similar remote assessments with diverse samples.

Improving bidirectional controlled remote preparation of arbitrary number of qudits in noisy environment

By elaborately selecting entangled channel, we put forward a universal scheme to achieve bidirectional remote preparation of qudit states with arbitrary numbers of particles under the control of the supervisor. Each sender needs to perform a positive-operator-value measurement and a projective measurement, while the supervisor requires to execute a projective measurement. Based on their measurement outcomes, the receivers can recover the desired states concurrently by carrying out single-qudit generalized Pauli operations which are given by general formulas. A point to highlight is that classical communication cost is greatly reduced at the supervisor’s broadcast channel by taking advantage of network coding. In addition, we analyze the influence of amplitude-damping and phase-damping noises, and utilize weak measurement and environment-assisted measurement to suppress noise.

Fidelity improvement in remote preparation of 3-qubit non-maximally entangled states through noisy environment

Fidelity improvement in remote preparation of 3-qubit non-maximally entangled states through noisy environment

Enhancing hierarchical remote preparation of an arbitrary n-qudit equatorial state by weak measurement and measurement reversal

Based on the demand for safer and more efficient quantum network communication, we propose two deterministic protocols to achieve the remote preparation of an arbitrary n-qudit equatorial states among multiple agents by selecting appropriate entanglement resources. The level of the agents varies depending on their authorities to restore the secret state. The superior agent requires the cooperation of the residual superior agents and any one of the subordinate agents, while the subordinate agent needs the help of all the other agents. To be emphasized, the recovery operations are deduced by general formulas that distinctly elucidate their relevance with the measurement outcomes. Additionally, we discuss the impact of amplitude damping noise and utilize weak measurement and measurement reversal to suppress noise.

Hierarchical remote preparation with multiple agents under the non-Markovian and Markovian noises

To meet the practical needs that the capabilities of agents in a quantum communication network are often different, we propose two deterministic schemes to achieve hierarchical remote preparation of an arbitrary single-qubit state by using cluster state as the entangled resource. One requires splitting the coefficients of the prepared state and the other does not due to the elaborately constructed measurement basis. The high-grade agent requires the help of all the other high-grade agents and any one of the low-grade agents to reconstruct the target state, while the low-grade agent needs the assistance of all the remaining agents. Comparing with the original scheme, ours are applicable to any number of agents and derive general expressions of recovery operators which clearly reveal the relationship with the measurement results. Moreover, the influences of diverse types of non-Markovian and Markovian noises are considered through calculating the fidelity of the output state.

Controlled Cyclic and Bidirectional Hybrid Quantum Communication of Arbitrary Two‐Qubit States

AbstractHybrid quantum communication with the combination of quantum teleportation and remote preparation is hopeful for promoting the development of quantum networks and enriching the diversity of quantum network communication. To improve the communication efficiency and enhance the scalability of the quantum networks, a meaningful protocol for controlled cyclic and bidirectional hybrid quantum communication of arbitrary two‐qubit states is proposed, which allows quantum information to be transmitted simultaneously in both directions among multiple participants. With the permission of one controller, each observer can simultaneously transmit arbitrary known two‐qubit states and unknown ones to their adjacent observers, by implementing remote preparation and quantum teleportation in the clockwise and counterclockwise directions. Furthermore, the participants just carry out some quantum measurements and recovery operations to achieve the communication target, and the desired states can be attained with a unit success probability, thus the protocol is deterministic. Finally, some comparisons are also made with other similar protocols, which shows that the protocol is better in qubit efficiency and communication capacity.

Mentor initialed multiparty hierarchical joint remote preparation of an arbitrary n-qudit state via generalized Bell states

We propose a protocol to Mentor initiated hierarchical joint remote prepare the arbitrary n-qudit state with generalized Bell states.The agents share generalized Bell states with the Mentor. The Mentor performs five-qudit projective measurements on his entangled particles to initiate the quantum channel shared by the agents. All the senders share the information of the prepared state and make quantum measurements on their particles based on the state to be prepared. The agent in the upper grade needs only the assistance of one of the agents in the lower grade to reconstruct the original state, while the agents in the lower grade need the assistance of all the other agents to recover the original state. It is more convenient in application than others since the agents in the protocol only requires two-particle entanglement for Mentor initiated hierarchical joint remote preparation of an arbitrary n-qudit state.

Демонстрационные исследования стекольных матриц для отвержденных радиоактивных отходов

The paper discusses the instrumentation installed in protective chambers and the methodological refinement of materials science research focused on model radioactive waste (RW) immobilized into an aluminophosphate waste form. The paper considers remote sample preparation and actual research launched in the IRM’s protective chambers to study model glass materials. The study provided basic characteristics of glass matrices (density, mechanical and elastic properties, thermal resistance, phase and elemental compositions) that were required to compare them with actual characteristics of solidified liquid radioactive waste produced by FSUE PA Mayak based on aluminophosphate glass after its long-term container storage.

Remote Preparation of Bright Squeezed Light via Field-Deployed Multi-Core Fibers

Remote Preparation of Bright Squeezed Light via Field-Deployed Multi-Core Fibers

Bidirectional controlled remote state preparation in four-dimensional systems

In this paper, two novel schemes for bidirectional controlled remote state preparation (BCRSP) and asymmetric bidirectional controlled remote state preparation (ABCRSP) in four-dimensional systems are proposed. The first scheme uses a six-particle entangled state as the quantum channel. Under Charlie’s supervision, Alice and Bob can simultaneously create a single-particle four-dimensional equatorial state at each other’s location. Moreover, in the second scheme, using a seven-particle entangled state as the quantum channel, Alice remotely prepares a two-particle four-dimensional equatorial state for Bob, while Bob remotely prepares another single-particle four-dimensional equatorial state for Alice under the supervision of controller Charlie. Both schemes employ quantum operations such as control-not, projective measurement and unitary transformation in four-dimensional systems. It is worth noting that the proposed schemes have a total success probability of 100% in ideal environment. In addition, we also investigate the proposed two schemes in the noisy environment. The fidelities of output states are calculated and the effect factors are discussed. Finally, we give the advantages of these schemes compared to other schemes.

Hierarchical remote preparation of an arbitrary m-qudit state with multiple agents

Based on Jin et al.’s hierarchical remote preparation scheme of an arbitrary [Formula: see text]-qudit state with three agents, we propose one scheme for multiple agents by utilizing the symmetry of cluster states. To save entanglement resource, we then put forward the other improved scheme. There exists a hierarchy among the agents in terms of their abilities which are quantified by nonconditioned fidelity. The upper-grade agent needs the assistance of all the remaining upper-grade agents and any one of the lower-grade agents to recover the target state, while the lower-grade agent requires all the other agents’ collaboration. It is important to emphasize that the recovery operation is derived by a general expression clearly revealing the relationship with the measurement results.

Controlled cyclic remote preparation

Multi-party quantum communication has gradually attracted widespread attention. To realize the perfect transmission of quantum states among multiple participants, a novel multi-party controlled cyclic remote preparation protocol for arbitrary single-qubit states with three senders is proposed. With the permission of one controller, each sender can transmit an arbitrary single-qubit state to its neighbor. In addition, we give a universal protocol for multi-party controlled cyclic remote preparation of arbitrary single-qubit states in the case of multiple senders, which can realize deterministic cyclic preparation of multiple quantum states in one direction. The scheme shows that the communication task can be successfully achieved only if all senders cooperate with the controller, and there is no need for the senders to employ information splitting and additional operations before performing measurements. Finally, we discuss the cyclic remote preparation protocol with three senders under five types of noisy environment, and the closeness between the output state and original state is measured by calculating fidelity.

A mentor initiated bi-directional controlled remote state preparation protocol for non-maximally entangled bell and GHZ states

In this paper, we present a quantum communication protocol for remote bi-directional preparation of two and three-particle entangled states. The state to be prepared at one end is known to the party at the other end and vice versa. This information is utilized by the respective parties in the process of execution of the protocol. A Mentor and a Controller act at the beginning and towards the end of the process, respectively. The Mentor initiates the process through a measurement by which he creates entanglement between the two primary parties who are otherwise not connected through any quantum resource. The Controller signals the final step of the protocol after being satisfied with the performances of the other parties. The protocol has the advantage of avoiding the requirement of quantum resources with a relatively large number of qubits.

A Remote Quantum Error-Correcting Code Preparation Protocol on Cluster States

The blind quantum computation (BQC) protocol allows for privacy-preserving remote quantum computations. In this paper, we introduce a remote quantum error correction code preparation protocol for BQC using a cluster state and analyze its blindness in the measurement-based quantum computation model. Our protocol requires fewer quantum resources than previous methods, as it only needs weak coherent pulses, eliminating the need for quantum memory and limited quantum computing. The results of our theoretical analysis and simulations show that our protocol requires fewer quantum resources compared to non-coding methods with the same qubit error rate.

Deterministic remote preparation of multi-qubit equatorial states through dissipative channels

We investigate the influence of a noisy environment on the remote preparation of the multi-qubit equatorial state, and specifically deduce the final states and fidelities of the remote preparation of the three-qubit and four-qubit equatorial states under diverse types of noisy environments, namely, amplitude damping, bit flip, phase damping, phase flip, bit-phase flip, depolarization, and non-Markov environments. The results show that when the decoherence factors of the front six noises are equal, the influence degrees of phase damped noise, bit flip noise, phase flip noise, and bit-phase flip noise are similar, while the information loss caused by the amplitude damped noise and depolarizing noise is less. In particular, the bit flip noise and depolarizing noise may have more complex effects on the remote state preparation (RSP) schemes depending on the phase information of the target states, even for the ideal cases where the fidelity values are always 1 for specific phase relations. In the non-Markov environment, owing to the back and forth of information between the environment and systems, fidelities exhibit oscillating behavior and the minimum value may stay greater than zero for a long evolutionary time. These results are expected to have potential applications for understanding and avoiding the influence of noise on remote quantum communication and quantum networks.

Multiparty-controlled remote state preparation of multiple qubit-string information

In this paper, we first propose a remote state preparation (RSP) scheme in the traditional sense, which accomplishes the remote preparation of a single-qubit controlled by multiple agents in the network. This triggers a new RSP scheme, by which we can remotely prepare tensor product-type quantum states controlled by one agent. After that, we generalize the above approach to the RSP scheme of multi-qubit information controlled by multiple agents in the network. In the extended scheme, as long as all agents operate faithfully, the receiver can recover all qubits of information in the original state; otherwise, the scheme fails. Such a scheme entangles quantum information in the preparation process, thus slashing the cost of such quantum resources as auxiliary qubits and local unitary operations, and, meanwhile, reducing the number of classical bits transferred among participants. Finally, we further investigate the remote preparation scheme for multiple qubit-string information under the control of multiple agents in the network.

Scrutinizing joint remote state preparation under decoherence

This research examines the effect of an open system containing the squeezed generalized amplitude damping channel on the joint remote preparation quantum communication protocol using a maximally entangled two-qubit state. Our findings indicate that the fidelity of a quantum system in contact with a non-zero temperature thermal bath can be enhanced by varying the squeezing parameters. These parameters include the squeezing phase of the channel Phi and the amount of squeezing of the channel r.

Remote Sensing Data Preparation for Recognition and Classification of Building Roofs

Buildings are among the most significant urban infrastructure that directly affects citizens’ livelihood. Knowledge about their rooftops is essential not only for implementing different Levels of Detail (LoD) in 3D city models but also for performing urban analyses related to usage potential (solar, green, social), construction assessment, maintenance, etc. At the same time, the more detailed information we have about the urban environment, the more adequate urban digital twins we can create. This paper proposes an approach for dataset preparation using an orthophoto with a resolution of 10 cm. The goal is to obtain roof images into separate GeoTIFFs categorised by type (flat, pitched, complex) in a way suitable for feeding rooftop classification models. Although the dataset is initially elaborated for rooftop classification, it can be applied to developing other deep-learning models related to roof recognition, segmentation, and usage potential estimation. The dataset consists of 3617 roofs covering the Lozenets district of Sofia, Bulgaria. During its preparation, the local-specific context is considered.

Remote Preparation of Optical Cat States Based on Gaussian Entanglement

AbstractRemote state preparation enables one to prepare and manipulate quantum state non‐locally. As an essential quantum resource, optical cat state is usually prepared locally by subtracting photons from a squeezed vacuum state. For remote quantum information processing, it is essential to prepare and manipulate optical cat states remotely based on Gaussian entanglement, which remains a challenge. Here, experimental preparation of optical cat states based on a remotely distributed two‐mode Gaussian entangled state in a lossy channel is presented. By performing photon subtraction and homodyne projective measurement at Alice's station, an optical cat state is prepared remotely at Bob's station. Furthermore, the prepared cat state is rotated by changing Alice's measurement basis of homodyne detection, which demonstrates the remote manipulation of it. By distributing two modes of the two‐mode Gaussian entangled state in lossy channels, it is demonstrated that the remotely prepared cat state can tolerate much more loss in Alice's channel than that in Bob's channel. It is also shown that cat states with amplitudes larger than 2 can be prepared by increasing the squeezing level and subtracting photon numbers. The results make a crucial step toward remote hybrid quantum information processing involving discrete‐ and continuous‐variable techniques.

A secure deterministic remote state preparation via a seven-qubit entangled channel of a two-qubit entangled state under the impact of quantum noise

In this study, a deterministic remote state preparation protocol is presented for the preparation of arbitrary two-qubit entangled states through a seven-qubit entangled channel prepared from the state proposed by Borras et al. (2007). The implementation of any protocol for quantum communication is inherently susceptible to quantum noise, presenting a challenge to the reliability and security of quantum communication systems. The introduction of noise results in a transition from a pure to a mixed quantum state. This paper examines six distinct noise models, including bit-flip noise, phase-flip noise, bit-phase-flip noise, amplitude damping, phase damping, and depolarizing noise, and analyzes their impact on the entangled channel. The alterations to the density matrices resulting from the introduction of noise are evaluated. The fidelity between the original and remotely prepared quantum states is also analyzed and visually represented. Additionally, a thorough security analysis is conducted to demonstrate the robustness of the protocol against both internal and external attacks.