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On the minimum number of unitaries needed to describe a random-unitary channel

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v4

Abstract

We provide, in an extremely simple way, an upper bound to the minimum number of unitary operators describing a general random-unitary channel.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0607034,
  title  = {On the minimum number of unitaries needed to describe a random-unitary channel},
  author = {Francesco Buscemi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0607034},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Final version accepted for publication. One wrong equation has been corrected, two notes and one reference have been added