Fixed-Boost Wigner Noise: Strict Trace-Distance Contraction without Quantum Degradability
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 , 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 , . For , all trace distances between distinct spin states are strictly smaller after than after , yet the unique linear post-processing factor has a negative normalized Choi eigenvalue. We solve the optimization over all physical converters exactly: , whereas the reverse deficiency is . 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