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Stabilizer entropies and nonstabilizerness monotones

Quantum Physics 2023-08-30 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study different aspects of the stabilizer entropies (SEs) and compare them against known nonstabilizerness monotones such as the min-relative entropy and the robustness of magic. First, by means of explicit examples, we show that, for R\'enyi index 0n<20\leq n<2, the SEs are not monotones with respect to stabilizer protocols which include computational-basis measurements, not even when restricting to pure states (while the question remains open for n2n\geq 2). Next, we show that, for any R\'enyi index, the SEs do not satisfy a strong monotonicity condition with respect to computational-basis measurements. We further study SEs in different classes of many-body states. We compare the SEs with other measures, either proving or providing numerical evidence for inequalities between them. Finally, we discuss exact or efficient tensor-network numerical methods to compute SEs of matrix-product states (MPSs) for large numbers of qubits. In addition to previously developed exact methods to compute the R\'enyi SEs, we also put forward a scheme based on perfect MPS sampling, allowing us to compute efficiently the von Neumann SE for large bond dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2303.10152,
  title  = {Stabilizer entropies and nonstabilizerness monotones},
  author = {Tobias Haug and Lorenzo Piroli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.10152},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

14 pages, 5 figures

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