A General Framework for Recursive Decompositions of Unitary Quantum Evolutions
Abstract
Decompositions of the unitary group U(n) are useful tools in quantum information theory as they allow one to decompose unitary evolutions into local evolutions and evolutions causing entanglement. Several recursive decompositions have been proposed in the literature to express unitary operators as products of simple operators with properties relevant in entanglement dynamics. In this paper, using the concept of grading of a Lie algebra, we cast these decompositions in a unifying scheme and show how new recursive decompositions can be obtained. In particular, we propose a new recursive decomposition of the unitary operator on qubits, and we give a numerical example.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0701193,
title = {A General Framework for Recursive Decompositions of Unitary Quantum Evolutions},
author = {Mehmet Dagli and Domenico D'Alessandro and Jonathan D. H. Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0701193},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages. To appear in J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. This article replaces our earlier preprint "A Recursive Decomposition of Unitary Operators on N Qubits." The current version provides a general method to generate recursive decompositions of unitary evolutions. Several decompositions obtained before are shown to be as a special case of this general procedure