Quantum operations that cannot be implemented using a small mixed environment

DOI10.1063/1.1499763MaRDI QIDQ4832730zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christof Zalka, Eleanor G. Rieffel

Publication date 14 December 2004

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0111084

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations, quantum information and its processing, quantum axioms, and philosophy (81P99) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

Abstract: To implement any quantum operation (a.k.a. ``superoperator or ``CP map) on a d-dimensional quantum system, it is enough to apply a suitable overall unitary transformation to the system and a d^2-dimensional environment which is initialized in a fixed pure state. It has been suggested that a d-dimensional environment might be enough if we could initialize the environment in a mixed state of our choosing. In this note we show with elementary means that certain explicit quantum operations cannot be realized in this way. Our counterexamples map some pure states to pure states, giving strong and easily manageable conditions on the overall unitary transformation. Everything works in the more general setting of quantum operations from d-dimensional to d'-dimensional spaces, so we place our counterexamples within this more general framework.

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