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Open Systems & Information Dynamics

On Kadison-Schwarz Approximation to Positive Maps

Dariusz Chruściński, Farrukh Maksutovich Mukhamedov, Mohamed Ali Hajji

Published Sep 1, 2020• 11 citations
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Abstract

We analyze Kadison-Schwarz approximation to positive maps in matrix algebras. This is an analogue of the well known structural physical approximation to positive maps used in entanglement theory. We study several known maps both decomposable (like transposition) and non-decomposable (like Choi map and its generalizations).
DOI
10.1142/s123016122050016x

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