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A fundamental problem in resource theory is to study the manipulation of the resource. Focusing on a general dynamical resource theory of quantum channels, here we consider tasks of one-shot resource distillation and dilution with a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Xiao Yuan , Pei Zeng , Minbo Gao , Qi Zhao

One of the central problems for near-term quantum devices is to understand their ultimate potential and limitations. We address this problem in terms of quantum error mitigation by introducing a framework taking into account the full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Ryuji Takagi

We consider entanglement distillation with noisy operations in which quantum measurements that constitute a general quantum operation are particularly noisy. We present a protocol for purifying noisy measurements and show that imperfect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Jaemin Kim , Jiyoung Yun , Joonwoo Bae

We investigate how noise impacts nonstabilizerness - a key resource for quantum advantage - in many-body qubit systems. While noise typically degrades quantum resources, we show that amplitude damping, a nonunital channel, can generate or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Fabian Ballar Trigueros , José Antonio Marín Guzmán

Quantum state purification protocols, which mitigate noise by converting multiple copies of noisy quantum states into fewer copies with a lower noise level, have applications in quantum communication and computation with imperfect devices.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Benchi Zhao , Yu-Ao Chen , Xuanqiang Zhao , Chengkai Zhu , Giulio Chiribella , Xin Wang

To date, there has been no experimental evidence that invalidates quantum theory. Yet it may only be an effective description of the world, in the same way that classical physics is an effective description of the quantum world. We ask…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-05 Ciarán M. Lee , John H. Selby

Magic state distillation is a resource intensive subroutine that consumes noisy input states to produce high-fidelity resource states that are used to perform logical operations in practical quantum-computing architectures. The resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Shraddha Singh , Andrew S. Darmawan , Benjamin J. Brown , Shruti Puri

We study the task of lifting arbitrary quantum states and channels to purifications and Stinespring dilations, respectively, in both the probabilistic exact and deterministic approximate settings. We formalize this task through a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Zoe G. del Toro , Jessica Bavaresco

The Shannon's bound for compression is one of the key restrictions for the compression of quantum information. Here we show that the unitarity of the compression operation imposes new bounds on the compression that are more limiting than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Sadegh Raeisi

Quantum Internet relies on quantum entanglement as a fundamental resource for secure and efficient quantum communication, reshaping data transmission. In this context, entanglement distillation emerges as a crucial process that plays a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Chengkai Zhu , Chenghong Zhu , Xin Wang

Quantum error correction and fault-tolerance have provided the possibility for large scale quantum computations without a detrimental loss of quantum information. A very natural class of gates for fault-tolerant quantum computation is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Tomas Jochym-O'Connor , Yafei Yu , Bassam Helou , Raymond Laflamme

Quantum resource theories use distillation protocols to convert less resourceful states into fully resourceful ones. However, these protocols often also generate an additional, unused output-referred to as a residual. We propose a framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Karol Horodecki , Chirag Srivastava , Leonard Sikorski , Siddhartha Das

Quantum networks rely on the efficient distribution of entanglement to enable long-distance quantum communication and information processing. A key challenge in these networks is the design of routing protocols capable of maintaining high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Javier Vecino Peñas , Ana Fernández-Vilas , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo , Sergio Gándara Gándara , Manuel Fernández-Veiga

Recent studies have introduced the worst-case quantum divergence as a key measure in quantum information. Here we show that such divergences can be understood from the perspective of the resource theory of asymmetric distinguishability,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Siqi Yao , Kun Fang

Quantum coherence and quantum entanglement represent two fundamental features of non-classical systems that can each be characterized within an operational resource theory. In this paper, we unify the resource theories of entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Eric Chitambar , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

The correlation structure of multitime quantum processes - succinctly described by quantum combs - is an important resource for many quantum information protocols and control tasks. Inspired by approaches for quantum states, we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Graeme D. Berk , Kavan Modi , Simon Milz

Realizing universal fault-tolerant quantum computation is a key goal in quantum information science. By encoding quantum information into logical qubits utilizing quantum error correcting codes, physical errors can be detected and…

Quantum error correction protects quantum information against environmental noise. When using qubits, a measure of quality of a code is the maximum number of errors that it is able to correct. We show that a suitable notion of ``number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emanuel Knill , Raymond Laflamme , Lorenza Viola

We develop the general framework of virtual resource distillation -- an alternative distillation strategy proposed in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050203 (2024)], which extends conventional quantum resource distillation by integrating the power…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Ryuji Takagi , Xiao Yuan , Bartosz Regula , Mile Gu

Purification is a process in which decoherence is partially reversed by using several input systems which have been subject to the same noise. The purity of the outputs generally increases with the number of input systems, and decreases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Keyl , R. F. Werner