thumb|right|LOCC paradigm: the parties are not allowed to exchange particles coherently. Only local operations and classical communication is allowed LOCC, or local operations and classical communication, is a method in quantum information theory where a local (product) operation is performed on part of the system, and where the result of that operation is "communicated" classically to another part where usually another local operation is performed conditioned on the information received.
thumb|right|LOCC paradigm: the parties are not allowed to exchange particles coherently. Only local operations and classical communication is allowed LOCC, or local operations and classical communication, is a method in quantum information theory where a local (product) operation is performed on part of the system, and where the result of that operation is "communicated" classically to another part where usually another local operation is performed conditioned on the information received.
== Mathematical properties == The formal definition of the set of LOCC operations is complicated due to the fact that later local operations depend in general on all the previous classical communication and due to the unbounded number of communication rounds. For any finite number r\geq1 one can define \operatorname{LOCC}_r, the set of LOCC operations that can be achieved with r rounds of classical communication. The set becomes strictly larger whenever r is increased and care has to be taken to define the limit of infinitely many rounds. In particular, the set LOCC is not topologically closed, that is there are quantum operations that can be approximated arbitrarily closely by LOCC but that are not themselves LOCC.
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