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Optimal decomposition of incoherent qubit channel

Quantum Physics 2018-09-26 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that any incoherent qubit channel could be decomposed into four incoherent Kraus operators. The proof consists in showing existence of four incoherent Kraus operators by decomposing the corresponding Choi-Jamio\l{}kowski-Sudarshan matrix. We mention some applications of this optimal decomposition. We also show that the Kraus rank and incoherent rank are different even for qubit channel.

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@article{arxiv.1807.01676,
  title  = {Optimal decomposition of incoherent qubit channel},
  author = {Swapan Rana and Maciej Lewenstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.01676},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Invited contribution to special issue on coherence in J. Phys. A; 11 pages, 1 figure; comment(s)/suggestion(s) welcome!