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Phase-covariant mixtures of non-unital qubit maps

Quantum Physics 2022-10-05 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We analyze convex combinations of non-unital qubit maps that are phase-covariant. In particular, we consider the behavior of maps that combine amplitude damping, inverse amplitude damping, and pure dephasing. We show that mixing non-unital channels can result in restoring the unitality, whereas mixing commutative maps can lead to non-commutativity. For the convex combinations of Markovian semigroups, we prove that classical uncertainties cannot break quantum Markovianity. Moreover, contrary to the Pauli channel case, the semigroup can be recovered only by mixing two other semigroups.

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@article{arxiv.2206.10742,
  title  = {Phase-covariant mixtures of non-unital qubit maps},
  author = {Katarzyna Siudzińska},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10742},
  year   = {2022}
}