We develop an analytical framework for coherence-to-entanglement conversion in bipartite high-dimensional quantum systems, so-called qunits. An arbitrary coherent input qunit is coupled to an incoherent ancilla through a generalized controlled-shift operation, producing a maximally correlated bipartite state. By analyzing the partial transpose of the output state, we establish an exact dimension-independent connection between the input coherence and the generated entanglement. We then study how this conversion is affected by three standard noise processes applied after the conversion step: phase damping, global depolarizing noise, and independent amplitude damping. The resulting expressions show that these channels degrade entanglement in qualitatively different ways. Phase damping leads to a uniform attenuation of the entanglement generated from coherence, depolarizing noise introduces pairwise thresholds associated with entanglement sudden death, and amplitude damping produces an asymmetric decay governed by relaxation toward the ground state. For maximally coherent inputs, the general results reduce to simple closed-form behavior, allowing direct comparison of the three noise mechanisms as the system dimension increases. In particular, global depolarizing noise exhibits a dimension-dependent sudden-death threshold, while amplitude damping leads to a smooth suppression in the maximally coherent case. These results provide useful analytical benchmarks for high-dimensional resource conversion and for assessing noisy entanglement generation in qudit-based quantum-information settings.
We develop an analytical framework for coherence-to-entanglement conversion in bipartite high-dimensional quantum systems, so-called qunits. An arbitrary coherent input qunit is coupled to an incoherent ancilla through a generalized controlled-shift operation, producing a maximally correlated bipartite state. By analyzing the partial transpose of the output state, we establish an exact dimension-independent connection between the input coherence and the generated entanglement. We then study how this conversion is affected by three standard noise processes applied after the conversion step: phase damping, global depolarizing noise, and independent amplitude damping. The resulting expressions show that these channels degrade entanglement in qualitatively different ways. Phase damping leads to a uniform attenuation of the entanglement generated from coherence, depolarizing noise introduces pairwise thresholds associated with entanglement sudden death, and amplitude damping produces an asymmetric decay governed by relaxation toward the ground state. For maximally coherent inputs, the general results reduce to simple closed-form behavior, allowing direct comparison of the three noise mechanisms as the system dimension increases. In particular, global depolarizing noise exhibits a dimension-dependent sudden-death threshold, while amplitude damping leads to a smooth suppression in the maximally coherent case. These results provide useful analytical benchmarks for high-dimensional resource conversion and for assessing noisy entanglement generation in qudit-based quantum-information settings.
Coherence-to-entanglement conversion transforms single-qubit superposition into a practical two-qubit resource, but noise limits this process in near-term quantum hardware. We derive closed-form benchmarks for a minimal CNOT primitive in which a coherent qubit and an incoherent ancilla generate entanglement before undergoing phase damping, global depolarizing, amplitude damping, or independent local depolarizing noise. Using the ℓ1-norm of coherence and negativity, we prove the noiseless law N0=Cℓ1/2, valid for arbitrary mixed inputs, and obtain exact negativities, survival fractions, and entanglement-sudden-death thresholds. For all X-state-preserving channels, a master relation shows that entanglement loss results from the competition between coherence suppression and partial-transpose spectral shifts. Phase damping yields η=1−p without finite-noise sudden death; global depolarization gives coherence-dependent sudden death; amplitude damping adds an excited-population penalty and sudden death only for θ>π/4; while local depolarization is most destructive at equal depolarizing strength. The initial survival slopes, −1, −3/2, −2, and −3, act as compact noise fingerprints. Since concurrence satisfies C=2N for the generated states, all robustness rankings remain unchanged. Mapping channel parameters to T1, Tφ, and average gate fidelity connects the theory to hardware-level performance.
ABSTRACT Coherence‐to‐entanglement conversion transforms single‐qubit superposition into a practical two‐qubit resource, but noise limits this process in near‐term quantum hardware. We derive closed‐form benchmarks for a minimal CNOT primitive in which a coherent qubit and an incoherent ancilla generate entanglement before undergoing phase damping, global depolarizing, amplitude damping, or independent local depolarizing noise. Using the ‐norm of coherence and negativity, we prove the noiseless law , valid for arbitrary mixed inputs, and obtain exact negativities, survival fractions, and entanglement‐sudden‐death thresholds. For all ‐state‐preserving channels, a master relation shows that entanglement loss results from the competition between coherence suppression and partial‐transpose spectral shifts. Phase damping yields without finite‐noise sudden death; global depolarization gives coherence‐dependent sudden death; amplitude damping adds an excited‐population penalty and sudden death only for ; while local depolarization is most destructive at equal depolarizing strength. The initial survival slopes, , , , and , act as compact noise fingerprints. Since concurrence satisfies for the generated states, all robustness rankings remain unchanged. Mapping channel parameters to , , and average gate fidelity connects the theory to hardware‐level performance.
An ideal CNOT maps the phase of a coherent qubit onto the coherence between ∣00⟩ and ∣11⟩ of a two-qubit state, producing an output that carries both entanglement and estimable phase information. We ask how post-gate noise degrades these two quantities, and find that they are not lost together. For the phase-encoded X states generated by the protocol, the negativity is a thresholded difference of the surviving coherence z=fκ and a population penalty g, vanishing once fκ≤g, while the phase quantum Fisher information (QFI) is the smooth ratio Fφ=4z2/(a+b), which stays positive for any nonzero coherence. As a result there is an exact region of state space in which the output is separable but still phase-sensitive. We characterize this region, give the residual QFI Fφ⋆=4g⋆2/(1−2g⋆) at entanglement death, and show that channels reaching death at the same coordinate share this residual, with global and independent local depolarization forming one such class and Fφ⋆=1/6 at maximal input coherence. Four standard channels appear as trajectories through this common geometry, and asymmetric population transfer adds a third coordinate that changes the entanglement but leaves the QFI unchanged, which marks where the two-coordinate description applies. We identify a measurement that attains the bound and compare with a direct single-qubit probe, which is more precise under matched exposure; the results are therefore reference benchmarks for phase-information retention, not a claim of metrological advantage.
Quantum resources — coherence, entanglement, nonlocality, and information precision — are not static properties. They are dynamically interconvertible, and their fates under noise channels define the practical boundaries of quantum advantage. This paper synthesizes six recent preprints from the quant-ph and cond-mat.stat-mech arXiv corpus to develop a candidate heuristic framework (not a unified derivation) for understanding how noise-channel geometry governs the conversion, degradation, and preservation of quantum resources across distinct physical platforms. The central thesis, stated as a structural pattern worth investigating rather than a proven theorem, is: **the qualitative behavior of quantum resource dynamics under noise — whether degradation is monotonic, sudden-death-exhibiting, or dimension-dependent — is determined primarily by the geometric structure of the noise channel, not by the magnitude of the resource being converted.** This pattern appears independently across coherence-to-entanglement transduction in qubits [corpus:arxiv:2606.16916], high-dimensional qudit systems [corpus:arxiv:2606.16695], bath-memory-mediated transport precision [corpus:arxiv:2606.17026], entanglement fragility in W-class states [corpus:arxiv:2606.12307], quantum scrambling in scarred billiards [corpus:arxiv:2606.16865], and non-Hermitian grid-state deformation [corpus:arxiv:2606.17036]. The falsification path for the central thesis is concrete: if a systematic survey of noise channels finds that sudden-death thresholds and monotonicity classes are not predictable from channel geometry alone — specifically, if amplitude-damping and phase-damping channels produce qualitatively identical degradation signatures for the same input resource magnitude — the geometric-structure thesis fails. The paper identifies this as a computable test using existing density-matrix simulation tools. Sources span quant-ph (primary, five papers) and cond-mat.stat-mech (one paper, weakly connected via precision transport). The abstract-only reading constraint is acknowledged throughout. --- Authorship: Saluca Agentic AI Research Team (Saluca LLC). AI-drafted from arXiv preprint corpus on the date in the filename. Cited arXiv preprints: 2606.12307, 2606.12700, 2606.16695, 2606.16712, 2606.16865, 2606.16916, 2606.16948, 2606.17026, 2606.17036
We systematically characterize quantum entanglement in all sixteen combinations of two-qubit Bell states across three operational regimes: pure superposition, noiseless mixing, and asymmetric mixing of one noisy and one pure Bell state. For pure superpositions, we calculate the von Neumann entropy and show that entanglement depends critically on the relative phase phi between superposed states. For mixed states, we use concurrence C under three physically motivated decoherence channels. The Depolarizing (DP) and Phase Damping (PD) channels are modeled as global, collective operations on the two-qubit Hilbert space, while Amplitude Damping (AD) is treated as independent local decay on each qubit, reflecting the asymmetric, energy-dissipating nature of spontaneous emission. A central and counterintuitive result is that increasing noise can raise concurrence in specific parameter regimes across all three channels. We further map the boundary between mathematical entanglement (C > 0) and operational quantum non-locality using the Horodecki criterion, finding this boundary to be strongly channel-dependent. Under Phase Damping, the Bell-local entanglement regime vanishes entirely for identical and same-bases mixtures, meaning any surviving entanglement guarantees a CHSH violation. Under Depolarizing noise, a large Bell-local region requires mixing probability r > 1/sqrt(2) to recover non-locality at maximum noise. For Amplitude Damping, certain mixtures exhibit a non-monotonic Horodecki parameter M(T): concurrence decreases monotonically with noise, yet the capacity for CHSH violation is lost at intermediate noise levels and restored at high noise, as maximal damping repurifies the noisy branch. These results provide a unified analytical reference for entanglement and non-locality management across Bell-state combinations and decoherence channels relevant to NISQ architectures.
Entanglement fidelity quantifies how well a quantum channel preserves the correlations between a transmitted system and an inaccessible reference system. We derive closed-form expressions for the entanglement fidelity associated with several standard quantum noise models, including the random Pauli-X, dephasing, depolarizing, Werner-Holevo, generalized Pauli (Weyl), and amplitude-damping channels. For each model, we express the entanglement fidelity in terms of a general input density operator ρ, using Schumacher's Kraus-operator approach, which provides a channel-agnostic recipe applicable to any completely positive trace-preserving (CPTP) map with a finite Kraus representation. We then specialize to a communication scenario in which the source emits a two-letter parametric alphabet, thereby making explicit the dependence of entanglement preservation on both channel and source parameters. The resulting expressions enable direct comparisons of channel performance and rankings for representative families of input states, including common qubit states.