On quantum channels
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
One of the most challenging open problems in quantum information theory is to clarify and quantify how entanglement behaves when part of an entangled state is sent through a quantum channel. Of central importance in the description of a quantum channel or completely positive map (CP-map) is the dual state associated to it. The present paper is a collection of well-known, less known and new results on quantum channels, presented in a unified way. We will show how this dual state induces nice characterizations of the extremal maps of the convex set of CP-maps, and how normal forms for states defined on a Hilbert space with a tensor product structure lead to interesting parameterizations of quantum channels.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0202124,
title = {On quantum channels},
author = {Frank Verstraete and Henri Verschelde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0202124},
year = {2007}
}