Ancilla models for quantum operations: for what unitaries does the ancilla state have to be physical?

DOI10.1007/S11128-012-0500-XMaRDI QIDQ2393698zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Zhang Jiang, Marco Piani, Carlton M. Caves

Publication date 12 August 2013

Published in Quantum Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4585

zbMATH Keywords

quantum tomographycompletely positivequantum operationancilla modelStinespring extension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50) Monotone and positive operators on ordered Banach spaces or other ordered topological vector spaces (47H07)

Abstract: Any evolution described by a completely positive trace-preserving linear map can be imagined as arising from the interaction of the evolving system with an initially uncorrelated ancilla. The interaction is given by a joint unitary operator, acting on the system and the ancilla. Here we study the properties such a unitary operator must have in order to force the choice of a physical- that is, positive-state for the ancilla if the end result is to be a physical-that is, completely positive-evolution of the system.

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