Quantum Purity Amplification for Arbitrary Eigenstates and Multiple Outputs
Abstract
Quantum purity amplification (QPA) is the task of coherently transforming copies of a mixed state into high-fidelity copies of a chosen eigenstate. We solve QPA in the general setting of input copies, output copies, arbitrary target eigenstates, arbitrary local dimension , and generic input spectra. We characterize the optimal channel and derive its all-site and one-site performance laws across output regimes. For the asymptotic analysis, we use a path-graph parametrization to show that, when the target eigenvalue has a constant spectral gap , achieving all-site error requires a number of input copies independent of and scaling as . When approaches a constant, the performance exhibits phase-like regimes, which we characterize explicitly. For the nonasymptotic analysis, we develop a theory of generalized Young diagrams that yields tight sample complexity bounds and provides the first dimension-uniform guarantee for optimal QPA. We also provide asymptotically efficient implementations of the optimal protocol. Together, these results establish QPA as a rigorous example of coherent quantum information processing with dimension-uniform sample complexity, supplying the technical foundation for the coherent-incoherent separation developed in the companion work.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.21570,
title = {Quantum Purity Amplification for Arbitrary Eigenstates and Multiple Outputs},
author = {Zhaoyi Li and Elias Theil and Aram W. Harrow and Isaac Chuang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.21570},
year = {2026}
}
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16+70 pages, 10+3 figures, 1+0 tables