Thursday, December 13, 2012

1212.2780 (S. Omkar et al.)

The operator sum-difference representation for quantum maps: application
to the two-qubit amplitude damping channel
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S. Omkar, R. Srikanth, Subhashish Banerjee
On account of the Abel-Galois no-go theorem for the algebraic solution to quintic and higher order polynomials, the eigenvalue problem and the associated characteristic equation for a general noise dynamics in dimension $d$ via the Choi-Jamiolkowski approach cannot be solved in general via radicals. We provide a way around this impasse by decomposing the Choi matrix into simpler, not necessarily positive, Hermitian operators that are diagonalizable via radicals, which yield a set of `positive' and `negative' Kraus operators. The price to pay is that the sufficient number of Kraus operators is $d^4$ instead of $d^2$, sufficient in the Kraus representation. We consider various applications of the formalism: the Kraus repesentation of the 2-qubit amplitude damping channel, the noise resulting from a 2-qubit system interacting dissipatively with a vacuum bath; defining the maximally dephasing and purely dephasing components of the channel in the new representation, and studying their entanglement breaking and broadcast properties.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2780

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