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Quasi inversion of qubit channels

Quantum Physics 2020-03-25 v5 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Quantum operations, or quantum channels cannot be inverted in general. An arbitrary state passing through a quantum channel looses its fidelity with the input. Given a quantum channel E{\cal E}, we introduce the concept of its quasi-inverse as a map Eqi{\cal E}^{qi} which when composed with E{\cal E} increases its average input-output fidelity in an optimal way. The channel Eqi{\cal E}^{qi} comes as close as possible to the inverse of a quantum channel. We give a complete classification of such maps for qubit channels and provide quite a few illustrative examples.

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@article{arxiv.1909.06118,
  title  = {Quasi inversion of qubit channels},
  author = {Vahid Karimipour and Fabio Benatti and Roberto Floreanini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.06118},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

4+5 pages, 4 figures, a few corrections in arguments and improvements in presentation