Quantumness of channels

Christopher A. Fuchs

Renat Nelsonovich Gumerov, Ruslan Linarovich Khazhin

Abstract For composite quantum systems, we consider quantum channels that uniquely determine the channels of the subsystems. Such channels of composite systems are called generating channels. Examples of generating channels are given by tensor products of two quantum channels of subsystems and their convex combinations. The paper deals with the properties of generating channels. In particular, we show that these channels form a convex compact set in the norm topology. We prove a criterion for a quantum channel to be generating. For composite systems consisting of two qubits, we construct generating phase-damping channels. For subsystems, these channels generate both phase-damping channels and depolarizing channels. Examples of nongenerating phase-damping channels are also presented.

Attila Lovas, Attila Andai

The simplest building blocks for quantum computations are the qubit-qubit quantum channels. In this paper, we analyze the structure of these channels via their Choi representation. The restriction of a quantum channel to the space of classical states (i.e. probability distributions) is called the underlying classical channel. The structure of quantum channels over a fixed classical channel is studied, the volume of the general and unital qubit channels with respect to the Lebesgue measure is computed and explicit formulas are presented for the distribution of the volume of quantum channels over given classical channels. We study the state transformation under uniformly random quantum channels. If one applies a uniformly random quantum channel (general or unital) to a given qubit state, the distribution of the resulted quantum states is presented.

Attila Lovas, Attila Andai

The simplest building blocks for quantum computations are the qubit-qubit quantum channels. In this paper, we analyze the structure of these channels via their Choi representation. The restriction of a quantum channel to the space of classical states (i.e. probability distributions) is called the underlying classical channel. The structure of quantum channels over a fixed classical channel is studied, the volume of the general and unital qubit channels with respect to the Lebesgue measure is computed and explicit formulas are presented for the distribution of the volume of quantum channels over given classical channels. We study the state transformation under uniformly random quantum channels. If one applies a uniformly random quantum channel (general or unital) to a given qubit state, the distribution of the resulted quantum states is presented.