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Fixed-Boost Wigner Noise: Strict Trace-Distance Contraction without Quantum Degradability

Quantum Physics 2026-07-14 v1 Mathematical Physics

Abstract

A Lorentz boost acts on the canonical spin of a massive particle through a momentum-dependent Wigner rotation. We show that, for one fixed observer boost, reducing over an uncertain momentum can strictly contract every pairwise spin-state trace distance without producing a channel that is degradable from the less contracted one. For spin 1/21/2, we first characterize the exact inversion-symmetric channel cone generated by a fixed Wigner angle and transverse momentum directions. Inside this cone lies the Pauli family Mα=diag(1α,1α,12α)M_\alpha=\operatorname{diag}(1-\alpha,1-\alpha,1-2\alpha), 0α<1/20\leq\alpha<1/2. For 0<α<β<1/20<\alpha<\beta<1/2, all trace distances between distinct spin states are strictly smaller after MβM_\beta than after MαM_\alpha, yet the unique linear post-processing factor has a negative normalized Choi eigenvalue. We solve the optimization over all physical converters exactly: 12infΛCPTPΦβΛΦα=α(βα)23α\frac{1}{2}\inf_{\Lambda\in\mathrm{CPTP}}\|\Phi_\beta-\Lambda\circ\Phi_\alpha\|_\diamond=\frac{\alpha(\beta-\alpha)}{2-3\alpha}, whereas the reverse deficiency is βα\beta-\alpha. Thus the identity dominates the family, while all positive-noise members are pairwise incomparable under CPTP post-processing. The ideal construction is realized as the narrow-packet limit of pure, normalizable five-component momentum states, and explicit perturbation and finite-shot tomography bounds certify an open set of examples. Separately, every nonidentity member fails embedding in a time-homogeneous Pauli-diagonal Lindblad semigroup. Hence ordering all unassisted spin distinguishabilities does not determine the quantum statistical post-processing order.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.12994,
  title  = {Fixed-Boost Wigner Noise: Strict Trace-Distance Contraction without Quantum Degradability},
  author = {Maxim V. Churilov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.12994},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures. Ancillary verification code included