Dynamical resource theory of incompatibility preservability

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Main Authors: Hsieh, Chung-Yun, Stratton, Benjamin, Wu, Chao-Hsien, Ku, Huan-Yu
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Published: 2024
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author Hsieh, Chung-Yun
Stratton, Benjamin
Wu, Chao-Hsien
Ku, Huan-Yu
author_facet Hsieh, Chung-Yun
Stratton, Benjamin
Wu, Chao-Hsien
Ku, Huan-Yu
contents The uncertainty principle is one of quantum theory's most foundational features. It underpins a quantum phenomenon called measurement incompatibility -- two physical observables of a single quantum system may not always be measured simultaneously. Apart from being fundamentally important, measurement incompatibility is also a powerful resource in the broad quantum science and technologies, with wide applications to cryptography, communication, random number generation, and device-independent tasks. Since every physical system is unavoidably subject to noise, an important, yet still open, question is how to characterise the ability of noisy quantum dynamics to preserve measurement incompatibility. This work fills this gap by providing the first resource theory of this ability, termed incompatibility preservability. We quantify incompatibility preservability by a robustness measure. Then, we introduce an operational task, entanglement-assisted filter game, to completely characterise both the robustness measure and the conversion of incompatibility preservability. Our results provide a general framework to describe how noisy dynamics affect the uncertainty principle's signature.
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spellingShingle Dynamical resource theory of incompatibility preservability
Hsieh, Chung-Yun
Stratton, Benjamin
Wu, Chao-Hsien
Ku, Huan-Yu
Quantum Physics
The uncertainty principle is one of quantum theory's most foundational features. It underpins a quantum phenomenon called measurement incompatibility -- two physical observables of a single quantum system may not always be measured simultaneously. Apart from being fundamentally important, measurement incompatibility is also a powerful resource in the broad quantum science and technologies, with wide applications to cryptography, communication, random number generation, and device-independent tasks. Since every physical system is unavoidably subject to noise, an important, yet still open, question is how to characterise the ability of noisy quantum dynamics to preserve measurement incompatibility. This work fills this gap by providing the first resource theory of this ability, termed incompatibility preservability. We quantify incompatibility preservability by a robustness measure. Then, we introduce an operational task, entanglement-assisted filter game, to completely characterise both the robustness measure and the conversion of incompatibility preservability. Our results provide a general framework to describe how noisy dynamics affect the uncertainty principle's signature.
title Dynamical resource theory of incompatibility preservability
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06315