Entanglement setup that shouldn't allow for the transmission of info

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The discussion centers on the impossibility of transmitting information through a specific quantum entanglement setup involving polarization-entangled photon pairs A1, A2, B1, and B2. Alice measures the polarizations of photons A1 and A2, while Bob performs an entanglement swap with photons B1 and B2 without measuring them. The key conclusion is that the random state resulting from Bob's entanglement swap prevents any meaningful information transmission, as the outcome is inherently unpredictable.

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Suppose we produce a polarisation-entangled photon pair ##A_1## and ##A_2##. Then we entangle another pair ##B_1## and ##B_2##.

Now suppose that these photons will not interact with anything, sending ##A_1## and ##B_1## to Alice and ##A_2## and ##B_2## to Bob.

Alice measures the polarisations of the pair of photons she received. Bob however doesn't measure them, but either entangles them correlative or anti-correlative.

I don't know a lot of aspects of this setup, but I ask: what makes transmission of information impossible?
 
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Search for "entanglement swapping" in these forums. We had a huge thread about it, discussing all aspects about "transmission of information".
 
entropy1 said:
Alice measures the polarisations of the pair of photons she received. Bob however doesn't measure them, but either entangles them correlative or anti-correlative.

I don't know a lot of aspects of this setup, but I ask: what makes transmission of information impossible?

The key word in your setup is the bolded "or". This is not something Bob can control when Bob performs an entanglement swap. A successful swap places the 2 photons in a random unknown state. (A random state obviously doesn't allow for much information to be present.)
 

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