Trading athermality for nonstabiliserness
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| author | Junior, A. de Oliveira Macedo, Rafael A. Czartowski, Jakub Brask, Jonatan Bohr Chaves, Rafael |
| author_facet | Junior, A. de Oliveira Macedo, Rafael A. Czartowski, Jakub Brask, Jonatan Bohr Chaves, Rafael |
| contents | Quantum advantage arises from quantum states that cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer. Such states are characterised by a property known as nonstabiliserness. In this work, we investigate whether nonstabiliserness can be generated by placing an initially stabiliser state in contact with a heat bath. Under minimal thermodynamic assumptions, we derive a necessary and sufficient condition for when this is possible. This yields an analytic characterisation of all nonstabiliser qubit states reachable through such thermal processes, together with explicit bounds on their nonstabiliserness. This, in turn, allows us to identify optimal regimes for generating this resource, including the Hamiltonians that maximise nonstabiliserness and the critical temperatures at which it emerges. Beyond the qubit case, we establish a general trade-off between the nonstabiliserness attainable under thermal operations and the initial nonequilibrium free energy of the system. |
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| spellingShingle | Trading athermality for nonstabiliserness Junior, A. de Oliveira Macedo, Rafael A. Czartowski, Jakub Brask, Jonatan Bohr Chaves, Rafael Quantum Physics Quantum advantage arises from quantum states that cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer. Such states are characterised by a property known as nonstabiliserness. In this work, we investigate whether nonstabiliserness can be generated by placing an initially stabiliser state in contact with a heat bath. Under minimal thermodynamic assumptions, we derive a necessary and sufficient condition for when this is possible. This yields an analytic characterisation of all nonstabiliser qubit states reachable through such thermal processes, together with explicit bounds on their nonstabiliserness. This, in turn, allows us to identify optimal regimes for generating this resource, including the Hamiltonians that maximise nonstabiliserness and the critical temperatures at which it emerges. Beyond the qubit case, we establish a general trade-off between the nonstabiliserness attainable under thermal operations and the initial nonequilibrium free energy of the system. |
| title | Trading athermality for nonstabiliserness |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13839 |