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Understanding entanglement distillation via stabilizer codes?

I am having some trouble understanding the distillation of EPR pairs using a stabilizer code. This idea goes back to the paper by Bennet, DiVincenzo, Smolin, and Wooters. The idea (I think) is that $k$...
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How do Hashing bound, entanglement purification, and QECC, relate to each other?

Could anyone elaborate on how these three concepts relate to each other? According to Charlie Bennett's original paper BDSW96, EPP is equivalent to QEC in the sense that both have the hashing bound as ...
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Is there any difference between a quantum- and classically-controlled gate if I know my basis?

Consider an unrealistic 2-qubit plus 1 ancilla bit-flip error correction code (images generated by quirk), where I know by some means or other that an error may have happen on qubit0 (represented by ...
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