Optimal Quantum de Finetti Theorems via Argmax Rounding
Abstract
We prove optimal finite quantum de Finetti upper bounds. Given a bosonic state , there is a probability measure on the unit sphere such that By purification, the bosonic theorem also gives the optimal upper bound for arbitrary exchangeable states. These results settle the dimension dependence left open by Christandl, K\"onig, Mitchison, and Renner (CMP 2007). The proof casts de Finetti approximation as sum-of-squares rounding and applies the argmax method of Jeronimo, Wu, and Xu (manuscript 2026). More generally, -site marginals satisfy bosonic and permutation-invariant bounds. Our proof formulates de Finetti approximation as the integrality gap of a symmetric-extension semidefinite program and rounds an optimum by the argmax principle. The sharp bounds have several consequences. For every fixed , we construct a channel with input dimension whose outputs are -close to separable states of local dimension and whose image contains every such separable state, thereby refuting Watrous's disentangler conjecture. We also obtain deterministic -time algorithms for explicit Best Separable State without perfect completeness and for trace-distance separability testing. Finally, spectral truncation gives the first dimension-free bosonic de Finetti theorem in Hilbert--Schmidt distance, with the optimal rate when the dimension may grow.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2608.02590,
title = {Optimal Quantum de Finetti Theorems via Argmax Rounding},
author = {Fernando Granha Jeronimo and Pei Wu and Haochen Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.02590},
year = {2026}
}