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Recently, the method that using an entanglement as a resource to distinguish orthogonal product states by local operations and classical communication (LOCC) has brought into focus. Zhang et al. (Sci Rep 6:30493, 2016) presented protocols which use an entanglement to distinguish some classes of orthogonal product states in \(\mathbb {C}^m\otimes \mathbb {C}^n\). In this paper, we mainly study the local distinguishability of multipartite product states. For the class of locally indistinguishable multipartite product states constructed by Wang et al. (Quantum Inf Process 16:5, 2017), we present a protocol that distinguishes perfectly these quantum states by LOCC using an entangled state as a resource for implementing quantum measurements.
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Li, HQ., **g, Nh. & Tang, XL. Distinguishing multipartite orthogonal product states by LOCC with entanglement as a resource. Quantum Inf Process 17, 195 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-018-1962-2
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