Expanding a 4-qubit Dicke state to a 5-qubit Dicke state with limited qubit access
摘要
Preparing multipartite entangled states under restricted qubit access is a key challenge for modular and distributed quantum architectures. We address this by presenting two complementary circuits. First, we propose a resource-efficient deterministic circuit for preparing the four-qubit Dicke state with two excitations, requiring only six two-qubit controlled gates, which is fewer than previously reported schemes. Second, we introduce a probabilistic expansion protocol that transforms a four-qubit Dicke state with two excitations into a five-qubit Dicke state with three excitations, even when only a subset of qubits is accessible and one qubit remains untouched. The expansion succeeds with a probability of 5/6; in the remaining 1/6 of cases, the post-measurement state is a recyclable three-qubit W-like state that can be used to regenerate the initial four-qubit Dicke state. We provide an analytical derivation of the success bound, explicit circuit constructions, and numerical simulations over