Functional analytic insights into irreversibility of quantum resources

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Main Authors: Regula, Bartosz, Lami, Ludovico
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author Regula, Bartosz
Lami, Ludovico
author_facet Regula, Bartosz
Lami, Ludovico
contents We propose an approach to the study of quantum resource manipulation based on the basic observation that quantum channels which preserve certain sets of states are contractive with respect to the base norms induced by those sets. We forgo the usual physical assumptions on quantum dynamics: instead of enforcing complete positivity, trace preservation, or resource-theoretic considerations, we study transformation protocols as norm-contractive maps. This allows us to apply to this problem a technical toolset from functional and convex analysis, unifying previous approaches and introducing new families of bounds for the distillable resources and the resource cost, both one-shot and asymptotic. Since our expressions lend themselves naturally to single-letter forms, they can often be calculated in practice; by doing so, we demonstrate with examples that they can yield the best known bounds on quantities such as the entanglement cost. As applications, we not only give an alternative derivation of the recent result of [arXiv:2111.02438] which showed that entanglement theory is asymptotically irreversible, but also provide the quantities introduced in that work with explicit operational meaning in the context of entanglement distillation through a variation of the hypothesis testing relative entropy. Besides entanglement, we reveal a new irreversible quantum resource: through improved bounds for state transformations in the resource theory of magic-state quantum computation, we show that there exist qutrit magic states that cannot be reversibly interconverted under stabiliser protocols.
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spellingShingle Functional analytic insights into irreversibility of quantum resources
Regula, Bartosz
Lami, Ludovico
Quantum Physics
Mathematical Physics
We propose an approach to the study of quantum resource manipulation based on the basic observation that quantum channels which preserve certain sets of states are contractive with respect to the base norms induced by those sets. We forgo the usual physical assumptions on quantum dynamics: instead of enforcing complete positivity, trace preservation, or resource-theoretic considerations, we study transformation protocols as norm-contractive maps. This allows us to apply to this problem a technical toolset from functional and convex analysis, unifying previous approaches and introducing new families of bounds for the distillable resources and the resource cost, both one-shot and asymptotic. Since our expressions lend themselves naturally to single-letter forms, they can often be calculated in practice; by doing so, we demonstrate with examples that they can yield the best known bounds on quantities such as the entanglement cost. As applications, we not only give an alternative derivation of the recent result of [arXiv:2111.02438] which showed that entanglement theory is asymptotically irreversible, but also provide the quantities introduced in that work with explicit operational meaning in the context of entanglement distillation through a variation of the hypothesis testing relative entropy. Besides entanglement, we reveal a new irreversible quantum resource: through improved bounds for state transformations in the resource theory of magic-state quantum computation, we show that there exist qutrit magic states that cannot be reversibly interconverted under stabiliser protocols.
title Functional analytic insights into irreversibility of quantum resources
topic Quantum Physics
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15678