A unified approach to quantum resource theories and a new class of free operations

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Hauptverfasser: Diaz, N. L., Mele, Antonio Anna, Bermejo, Pablo, Braccia, Paolo, Deneris, Andrew E., Larocca, Martin, Cerezo, M.
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author Diaz, N. L.
Mele, Antonio Anna
Bermejo, Pablo
Braccia, Paolo
Deneris, Andrew E.
Larocca, Martin
Cerezo, M.
author_facet Diaz, N. L.
Mele, Antonio Anna
Bermejo, Pablo
Braccia, Paolo
Deneris, Andrew E.
Larocca, Martin
Cerezo, M.
contents In quantum resource theories (QRTs) certain quantum states and operations are deemed more valuable than others. While the determination of the ``free'' elements is usually guided by the constraints of some experimental setup, this can make it difficult to study similarities and differences between QRTs. In this work, we argue that QRTs follow from the choice of a preferred algebraic structure $\mathcal{E}$ to be preserved, thus setting the free operations as the automorphisms of $\mathcal{E}$. We illustrate our finding by determining $\mathcal{E}$ for the QRTs of entanglement, Clifford stabilizerness, purity, imaginarity, fermionic Gaussianity, reference frames, thermodynamics and coherence; showing instances where $\mathcal{E}$ is a Lie algebra, group, ring, or even a simple set. This unified understanding allows us to generalize the concept of stochastic local operations and classical communication (SLOCC) to identify novel resource non-increasing operations for Lie-algebra based QRTs, thus finding a new solution to an open problem in the literature. We showcase the sanity of our new set of operations by rigorously proving that they map free states to free states, as well as determine more general situations where these transformations strictly do not increase the resource of a state.
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spellingShingle A unified approach to quantum resource theories and a new class of free operations
Diaz, N. L.
Mele, Antonio Anna
Bermejo, Pablo
Braccia, Paolo
Deneris, Andrew E.
Larocca, Martin
Cerezo, M.
Quantum Physics
In quantum resource theories (QRTs) certain quantum states and operations are deemed more valuable than others. While the determination of the ``free'' elements is usually guided by the constraints of some experimental setup, this can make it difficult to study similarities and differences between QRTs. In this work, we argue that QRTs follow from the choice of a preferred algebraic structure $\mathcal{E}$ to be preserved, thus setting the free operations as the automorphisms of $\mathcal{E}$. We illustrate our finding by determining $\mathcal{E}$ for the QRTs of entanglement, Clifford stabilizerness, purity, imaginarity, fermionic Gaussianity, reference frames, thermodynamics and coherence; showing instances where $\mathcal{E}$ is a Lie algebra, group, ring, or even a simple set. This unified understanding allows us to generalize the concept of stochastic local operations and classical communication (SLOCC) to identify novel resource non-increasing operations for Lie-algebra based QRTs, thus finding a new solution to an open problem in the literature. We showcase the sanity of our new set of operations by rigorously proving that they map free states to free states, as well as determine more general situations where these transformations strictly do not increase the resource of a state.
title A unified approach to quantum resource theories and a new class of free operations
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10851