Fidelity and entanglement fidelity for infinite-dimensional quantum systems (Q2878650)

In this work the authors study questions related to fidelity, entanglement fidelity and the operator-sum representation of quantum channels, most specifically inquiring whether certain well-known properties in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces also hold in the infinite-dimensional case. Concerning the isometric freedom of the operator-sum representation, it is shown that this also holds in the infinite-dimensional case if the channel sends every pure state to a finite rank state. Another question studied is motivated by Nielsen's result that for any finite-dimensional quantum channel \(\mathcal{E}\) and state \(\rho\), there is a sequence of operators \(\{A_i\}\) of \(\mathcal{E}\) such that the entanglement fidelity equals NEWLINE\[NEWLINEF(\rho,\mathcal{E})=|tr(A_1\rho)|^2,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE and authors then prove the corresponding infinite-dimensional result. Upper and lower bounds of the quantum fidelity and their connection to the trace distance is also provided.