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![Figure 2 a) A curve, which asymptotes to the geodesic g I . We have marked in color the geodesics tangent to the curve and the boundary intervals J ( x ), which they subtend. b) a plot of a J ( x ) -the length of the intervals J ( x ) as a function of the centerpoint x . If the curve asymptotes to the geodesic g I then a J ( x ) must agree with a I ( x ) (shown for comparison in dashed gray) outside some interval ( x L , x R ) [25].](/paper-figures/e9374c3dc2c64417ac6418a2cc35ed08/the-information-theoretic-interpretation-of-the-length-of-a-curve-figure-2.png)


![Figure 5 Intermediate stage in a constrained merging protocol. The top row depicts the interval I = [ L, R ] with endpoints L and R . Step x of the protocol acts on interval I ( x ) = [ ℓ ( x ) , r ( x )], drawn in the second row. Because r ( x ) is non-decreasing with x , the sites marked by the orange bar have not yet been acted upon. The third row depicts the interval I ( x +1) = [ ℓ ( x +1) , r ( x +1)]. Once step x is complete, none of the sites indicated by the green bar will ever be acted upon again since ℓ ( x ) is non-decreasing with x . Therefore, after step x the reduced density operators corresponding to the green marked sites on B and the orange marked sites on A should approximate the reduced density operator of the target state | ψ 〉 .](/paper-figures/e2f10ea193824fea9ab3378677ba9176/the-information-theoretic-interpretation-of-the-length-of-a-curve-figure-5.png)
![Figure 6 Sequential merging error. The top line depicts the interval I = [ L, R ] and a set of merging constraints in the form of intervals I ( x ) depicted as green ovals. The state to be merged is a maximally entangled state shared between L and R , as illustrated in the second line. One way to merge this state is for Bob to prepare a maximally entangled state between L and L +1 in the first sequential merging step and then, in the subsequent steps, simply swap the information to the right until a maximally entangled state is established between L and R . This procedure doesn't require any Alice-Bob entanglement and yet produces long-range entanglement in Bob's lab. It is prohibited by the sequential merging error condition because, while the final state is correct, the intermediate state fails the sequential merging condition. The joint state of Bob's L and Alice's R is not correct at the intermediate merging steps after L has been completed and before R has been reached; they should be maximally entangled but instead they are product.](/paper-figures/457124e91c4b4d75be555a7f94fcc9eb/the-information-theoretic-interpretation-of-the-length-of-a-curve-figure-6.png)

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“Applying the same logic to our setup in the regime of zero entanglement, i.e. allowing pure initial and final states of the closed universe, one does not recover conventional quantum mechanics: the decoherence functional for pure initial and final states is rank 1, and thus the standard quantum-mechanical measurement probabilities are not recovered, see e.g.[139].”
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