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Unital Kadison-Schwarz Maps

Quantum Physics 2025-09-23 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Quantum entanglement is an important phenomenon in quantum information theory. To detect entanglement theoretically, positive but not completely positive maps are used. The Kadison-Schwarz (KS) inequality interpolates between positivity and complete positivity. KS maps may be key to understanding and detecting entanglement. We provide a description of a subset of KS maps on M2(C)M_2(\mathbb{C}) that are unital. This allows for the classification of a wider class of positive maps than the well known bistochastic maps. We derive the conditions for a unital map to be a KS map, and provide non-trivial examples of such a map.

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@article{arxiv.2509.16368,
  title  = {Unital Kadison-Schwarz Maps},
  author = {Hajir Al Zadjali and Farrukh Mukhamedov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.16368},
  year   = {2025}
}
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