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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

Quantum channels underlie the dynamics of quantum systems, but in many practical settings it is the channels themselves that require processing. We establish universal limitations on the processing of both quantum states and channels,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Bartosz Regula , Ryuji Takagi

Quantum state purification, a process that aims to recover a state closer to a system's principal eigenstate from multiple copies of an unknown noisy quantum state, is crucial for restoring noisy states to a more useful form in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Keming He , Chengkai Zhu , Hongshun Yao , Jinguo Liu , Yinan Li , Xin Wang

It has been recently shown that there exist universal fundamental limits to the accuracy and efficiency of the transformation from noisy resource states to pure ones (e.g.,~distillation) in any well-behaved quantum resource theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Kun Fang , Zi-Wen Liu

Quantum state purification, which operates not by identifying and correcting specific errors but by repeatedly projecting multiple noisy copies onto special subspaces, provides a syndrome-free alternative to quantum error correction.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Xing-Chen Guo , Benchi Zhao , Xin Wang

The linearity of quantum operations puts many fundamental constraints on the information processing tasks we can achieve on a quantum system whose state is not exactly known, just as we observe in quantum cloning and quantum discrimination.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuan Feng , Runyao Duan , Zhengfeng Ji

Preparing a quantum system in a pure state is ultimately limited by the nature of the system's evolution in the presence of its environment and by the initial state of the environment itself. We show that, when the system and environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Francesco Ticozzi , Lorenza Viola

The manipulation of quantum "resources" such as entanglement, coherence and magic states lies at the heart of quantum science and technology, empowering potential advantages over classical methods. In practice, a particularly important kind…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Kun Fang , Zi-Wen Liu

We derive a general limit on the fidelity of a quantum channel conveying an ensemble of pure states. Unlike previous results, this limit applies to arbitrary coding and decoding schemes, including nonunitary decoding. This establishes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Howard Barnum , Christopher A. Fuchs , Richard Jozsa , Benjamin Schumacher

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

The operational axiomatization of quantum theory can be regarded as a set of six epistemological rules for falsifying propositions of the theory. In particular, the Purification postulate-the only one that is not shared with classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano

We introduce a quantity called the coherence of purification which can be a measure of total quantumness for a single system. We prove that coherence of purification is always more than the coherence of the system. For a pure state, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Arun Kumar Pati , Long-Mei Yang , Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

Quantum mechanics put restriction on performing some task which we can do classically. One such restriction is that we cannot copy an arbitrary quantum state. This is known as No-cloning theorem. Although quantum mechanics forbid us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-11 Satyabrata Adhikari

The key realisation which lead to the emergence of the new field of quantum information processing is that quantum mechanics, the theory that describes microscopic particles, allows the processing of information in fundamentally new ways.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Gisin , N. Linden , S. Massar , S. Popescu

We consider universal aspects of two problems: (i) the slow purification of a large number of qubits by repeated quantum measurements, and (ii) the singular value structure of a product ${m_t m_{t-1}\ldots m_1}$ of many large random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-21 Andrea De Luca , Chunxiao Liu , Adam Nahum , Tianci Zhou

Quantum state purification is the task of recovering a nearly pure copy of an unknown pure quantum state using multiple noisy copies of the state. This basic task has applications to quantum communication over noisy channels and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Andrew M. Childs , Honghao Fu , Debbie Leung , Zhi Li , Maris Ozols , Vedang Vyas

We investigate the probabilistic cloning and purification of quantum states. The performance of these probabilistic operations is quantified by the average fidelity between the ideal and actual output states. We provide a simple formula for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaromir Fiurasek

Quantum information processing and computing tasks can be understood as quantum networks, comprising quantum states and channels and possible physical transformations on them. It is hence pertinent to estimate the change in informational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Sohail , Vivek Pandey , Uttam Singh , Siddhartha Das

We review a recent approach to the foundations of quantum mechanics inspired by quantum information theory. The approach is based on a general framework, which allows one to address a large class of physical theories which share basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 G. Chiribella , C. M. Scandolo

Quantum gates executed on physical hardware are inevitably degraded by environmental noise. While state purification effectively distills static quantum resources, the dynamic execution of quantum algorithms requires a higher-order approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Jiayi Zhao , Yu-Ao Chen , Guocheng Zhen , Chengkai Zhu , Ranyiliu Chen , Xin Wang
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