Convolutional Entanglement Distillation

Understand

We develop a theory of entanglement distillation that exploits a convolutional coding structure.

• We provide a method for converting an arbitrary classical binary or quaternary convolutional code into a convolutional entanglement distillation protocol.
• The imported classical convolutional code does not have to be dual-containing or self-orthogonal.
• The yield and error-correcting properties of such a protocol depend respectively on the rate and error-correcting properties of the imported classical convolutional code.