A mathematical theory of resources

DOI10.1016/J.IC.2016.02.008zbMATH Open1353.81029arXiv1409.5531OpenAlexW2096204190MaRDI QIDQ320201FDOQ320201

Bob Coecke, Tobias Fritz, Robert W. Spekkens

Publication date: 6 October 2016

Published in: Information and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In many different fields of science, it is useful to characterize physical states and processes as resources. Chemistry, thermodynamics, Shannon's theory of communication channels, and the theory of quantum entanglement are prominent examples. Questions addressed by a theory of resources include: Which resources can be converted into which other ones? What is the rate at which arbitrarily many copies of one resource can be converted into arbitrarily many copies of another? Can a catalyst help in making an impossible transformation possible? How does one quantify the resource? Here, we propose a general mathematical definition of what constitutes a resource theory. We prove some general theorems about how resource theories can be constructed from theories of processes wherein there is a special class of processes that are implementable at no cost and which define the means by which the costly states and processes can be interconverted one to another. We outline how various existing resource theories fit into our framework. Our abstract characterization of resource theories is a first step in a larger project of identifying universal features and principles of resource theories. In this vein, we identify a few general results concerning resource convertibility.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5531

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coding theorems (Shannon theory) (94A24) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

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