Gaussian unsteerable channels and computable quantifications of Gaussian steering
Abstract
The current quantum resource theory for Gaussian steering for continuous-variable systems is flawed and incomplete. Its primary shortcoming stems from an inadequate comprehension of the architecture of Gaussian channels transforming Gaussian unsteerable states into Gaussian unsteerable states, resulting in a restricted selection of free operations. In the present paper, we explore in depth the structure of such -mode Gaussian channels, and introduce the class of the Gaussian unsteerable channels and the class of maximal Gaussian unsteerable channels, both of them may be chosen as the free operations, which completes the resource theory for Gaussian steering from to by Alice's Gaussian measurements. We also propose two quantifications of -mode Gaussian steering from to . The computation of the value of is straightforward and efficient, as it solely relies on the covariance matrices of Gaussian states, eliminating the need for any optimization procedures. Though s are not genuine Gaussian steering measures, they have some nice properties such as non-increasing under certain Gaussian unsteerable channels. Additionally, we compare with the Gaussian steering measure , which is based on the Uhlmann fidelity, revealing that is an upper bound of at certain class of -mode Gaussian pure states. As an illustration, we apply to discuss the behaviour of Gaussian steering for a special class of -mode Gaussian states in Markovian environments, which uncovers the intriguing phenomenon of rapid decay in quantum steering.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.00878,
title = {Gaussian unsteerable channels and computable quantifications of Gaussian steering},
author = {Taotao Yan and Jie Guo and Jinchuan Hou and Xiaofei Qi and Kan He},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00878},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
14 pages,7 figures