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Computable lower bounds on the entanglement cost of quantum channels

Quantum Physics 2023-02-16 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A class of lower bounds for the entanglement cost of any quantum state was recently introduced in [arXiv:2111.02438] in the form of entanglement monotones known as the tempered robustness and tempered negativity. Here we extend their definitions to point-to-point quantum channels, establishing a lower bound for the asymptotic entanglement cost of any channel, whether finite or infinite dimensional. This leads, in particular, to a bound that is computable as a semidefinite program and that can outperform previously known lower bounds, including ones based on quantum relative entropy. In the course of our proof we establish a useful link between the robustness of entanglement of quantum states and quantum channels, which requires several technical developments such as showing the lower semicontinuity of the robustness of entanglement of a channel in the weak*-operator topology on bounded linear maps between spaces of trace class operators.

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@article{arxiv.2201.09257,
  title  = {Computable lower bounds on the entanglement cost of quantum channels},
  author = {Ludovico Lami and Bartosz Regula},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.09257},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

24 pages. Technical companion paper to [arXiv:2111.02438], now published as [Nat. Phys. 19, 184-189 (2023)]. In v2, which is close to the published version, we improved the presentation and corrected a few typos