arXiv · 2306.04077
Operator Algebra Generalization of a Theorem of Watrous and Mixed Unitary Quantum Channels
Abstract
We establish an operator algebra generalization of Watrous' theorem \cite{watrous2009} on mixing unital quantum channels (completely positive trace-preserving maps) with the completely depolarizing channel, wherein the more general objects of focus become (finite-dimensional) von Neumann algebras, the unique trace preserving conditional expectation onto the algebra, the group of unitary operators in the commutant of the algebra, and the fixed point algebra of the channel. As an application, we obtain a result on the asymptotic theory of quantum channels, showing that all unital channels are eventually mixed unitary. We also discuss the special case of the diagonal algebra in detail, and draw connections to the theory of correlation matrices and Schur product maps.
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David W Kribs, Jeremy Levick, Rajesh Pereira, Mizanur Rahaman. 2023-06-07. Operator Algebra Generalization of a Theorem of Watrous and Mixed Unitary Quantum Channels. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ad2cb0
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