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Continuous Functions as Quantum Operations: a probabilistic approximation

Quantum Physics 2016-02-26 v1

Abstract

In this note we propose a version of the classical Stone-Weierstrass theorem in the context of quantum operations, by introducing a particular class of quantum operations, dubbed polynomial quantum operations. This result permits to interpret from a probabilistic point of view, and up to a certain approximation, any continuous function from the real cube [0; 1]^n to the real interval [0; 1] as a quantum operation.

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@article{arxiv.1602.07845,
  title  = {Continuous Functions as Quantum Operations: a probabilistic approximation},
  author = {Hector Freytes and Antonio Ledda and Giuseppe Sergioli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.07845},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Pages 13, figures 3

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