English

New multiplicativity results for qubit maps

Quantum Physics 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

Let Φ\Phi be a trace-preserving, positivity-preserving (but not necessarily completely positive) linear map on the algebra of complex 2×22 \times 2 matrices, and let Ω\Omega be any finite-dimensional completely positive map. For p=2p=2 and p4p \geq 4, we prove that the maximal pp-norm of the product map Φ\otΩ\Phi \ot \Omega is the product of the maximal pp-norms of Φ\Phi and Ω\Omega. Restricting Φ\Phi to the class of completely positive maps, this settles the multiplicativity question for all qubit channels in the range of values p4p \geq 4.

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0512185,
  title  = {New multiplicativity results for qubit maps},
  author = {Christopher King and Nilufer Koldan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0512185},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages; original proof simplified by using Gorini and Sudarshan's classification of extreme affine maps on R^3