Extreme Points and Factorizability for New Classes of Unital Quantum Channels

DOI10.1007/S00023-021-01071-YMaRDI QIDQ6342180arXivFDO

Authors Uffe Haagerup, Magdalena Musat, Mary Beth Ruskai

Publication date 5 June 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00023-021-01071-Y

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operator spaces and completely bounded maps (46L07) Quantum channels, fidelity (81P47) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

arXiv classification

math-phmath.MPmath.OAquant-ph

Abstract: We introduce and study two new classes of unital quantum channels. The first class describes a 2-parameter family of channels given by completely positive (CP) maps $$ which are both unital and trace-preserving. Almost every member of this family is factorizable and extreme in the set of CP maps which are both unital and trace-preserving, but is not extreme in either the set of unital CP maps or the set of trace-preserving CP maps. We also study a large class of maps which generalize the Werner-Holevo channel for $d=3$ in the sense that they are defined in terms of partial isometries of rank $d-1$. Moreover, we extend this to maps whose Kraus operators have the form $t|e_{j}anglelangle{e}_j|oplusV$ with $$ unitary and $tin(-1,1)$. We show that almost every map in this class is extreme in both the set of unital CP maps and the set of trace-preserving CP maps. We analyze in detail a particularly interesting subclass which is extreme unless $t=-1/(d-1)$. For $d=3$, this includes a pair of channels which have a dual factorization in the sense that they can be obtained by taking the partial trace over different subspaces after using the same unitary conjugation in $$.

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