New Operator Realization of Superoperators and Its Application in Quantum Information Theory

Fan Hong-Yi, Liyun Hu

By exposing deficiency of the usual superoperators that have no explicit operator-expression in quantum information theory we introduce thermo entangled state representation to endow each of these superoperators a definite operator-expression in an enlarged space in which one mode is a fictitious. This helps us to directly derive the role of exponential of superoperators and the solutions of some master equations.

Paul Mandel

Eric M. Rains

One of the fundamental concepts of quantum information theory is that of entanglement purification; that is, the transformation of a partially entangled state into a smaller-dimensional, more completely entangled state. Of particular interest are protocols for entanglement purification (EPPs) that alternate purely local operations with one- or two-way classical communication. In the present work, we consider a more general, but simpler, class of transformations, called separable superoperators. Since every EPP is a separable superoperator, bounds on separable superoperators apply as well to EPPs; we use this fact to give a new upper bound on the rate of EPPs on Bell-diagonal states, and thus on the capacity of Bell-diagonal channels.

Blerina Xhabli

Xiaorong Wang, Ting Gao, Fengli Yan

Abstract In quantum information, most information processing processes involve quantum channels. One manifestation of a quantum channel is quantum operation acting on quantum states. The coherence of quantum operations can be considered as a quantum resource, which can be exploited to perform certain quantum tasks. From the viewpoint of Choi–Jamiołkowski isomorphism, we study the coherence of quantum operations in the framework of resource theory. We study the phase-out superoperation and give the operation which transforms the Choi–Jamiołkowski state of a quantum operation to the Choi–Jamiołkowski state of the another quantum operation obtained by using the phase-out superoperation to act on the quantum operation. The set of maximally incoherent superoperations, the set of nonactivating coherent superoperations and the set of de-phase incoherent superoperations are investigated and we prove that these sets are closed to compound operation and convex combination of quantum superoperations. Further, we introduce the fidelity coherence measure of quantum operations and obtain the exact form of the fidelity coherence measure of the unitary operations on the single qubit.

Joseph Emerson