Necessary and sufficient conditions for deterministic remote extraction and destruction of qubit information encoded in bipartite states using only local operations and classical communications (LOCC) are presented. The conditions indicate that there is a way to asymmetrically spread qubit information between two parties such that it can be remotely extracted with unit probability at one of the parties but not at the other as long as they are using LOCC. Remote destruction can also be asymmetric between the two parties, but the conditions are incompatible with those for remote extraction.

• Received 11 November 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.062340