Symmetry witnesses

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA7636zbMATH Open1370.81085arXiv1703.05546OpenAlexW3037940675WikidataQ115597421 ScholiaQ115597421MaRDI QIDQ4977726FDOQ4977726

Authors: Paolo Aniello, Dariusz Chruściński 

Publication date: 17 August 2017

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A symmetry witness is a suitable subset of the space of selfadjoint trace class operators that allows one to determine whether a linear map is a symmetry transformation, in the sense of Wigner. More precisely, such a set is invariant with respect to an injective densely defined linear operator in the Banach space of selfadjoint trace class operators (if and) only if this operator is a symmetry transformation. According to a linear version of Wigner's theorem, the set of pure states, the rank-one projections, is a symmetry witness. We show that an analogous result holds for the set of projections with a fixed rank (with some mild constraint on this rank, in the finite-dimensional case). It turns out that this result provides a complete classification of the set of projections with a fixed rank that are symmetry witnesses. These particular symmetry witnesses are projectable; i.e., reasoning in terms of quantum states, the sets of uniform density operators of corresponding fixed rank are symmetry witnesses too.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05546

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum statetrace class operatorWigner's theoremsymmetry transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Linear operators belonging to operator ideals (nuclear, (p)-summing, in the Schatten-von Neumann classes, etc.) (47B10) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

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