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Classification and implementation of unitary-equivariant and permutation-invariant quantum channels

Quantum Physics 2025-10-10 v1

Abstract

Many quantum information tasks use inputs of the form ρm\rho^{\otimes m}, which naturally induce permutation and unitary symmetries. We classify all quantum channels that respect both symmetries - i.e. unitary-equivariant and permutation-invariant quantum channels from (Cd)m(\mathbb{C}^{d})^{\otimes m} to (Cd)n(\mathbb{C}^{d})^{\otimes n} - via their extremal points. Operationally, each extremal quantum channel factors as unitary Schur sampling \rightarrow an irrep-level unitary-equivariant quantum channel \rightarrow the adjoint unitary Schur sampling. We give a streaming implementation ansatz that uses an efficient streaming implementation of unitary Schur sampling together with a resource-state primitive, and we apply it to state symmetrization, symmetric cloning, and purity amplification. In these applications we obtain polynomial-time algorithms with exponential memory improvements in m,nm,n. Further, for symmetric cloning we present, to our knowledge, the first efficient (polynomial-time) algorithm with explicit memory and gate bounds.

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@article{arxiv.2510.08154,
  title  = {Classification and implementation of unitary-equivariant and permutation-invariant quantum channels},
  author = {Laura Mančinska and Elias Theil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08154},
  year   = {2025}
}

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41 pages, 3 tables, 10 figures, 3 algorithms