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Explicit expressions for the concurrence of all positive and trace-preserving ("stochastic") 1-qubit maps are presented. By a new method we find the relevant convex roof pattern. We conclude that two component optimal decompositions always…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-04 Meik Hellmund , Armin Uhlmann

This work studies how a suitably-designed classical system generates with a quantum-like (QL) state space mediated by a graph. The graph plays a special dual role by directing the topology of the classical network and defining a state space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Gregory D. Scholes

We study the approximation of operators acting on probability measures on a product space with prescribed marginal. Let $I$ be a label space endowed with a reference measure $\lambda$, and define $\cal M_\lambda$ as the set of probability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Samy Mekkaoui , Huyên Pham , Xavier Warin

An obstacle affecting any proposal for a topological quantum computer based on Ising anyons is that quasiparticle braiding can only implement a finite (non-universal) set of quantum operations. The computational power of this restricted set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-08 Mark Howard , Jiri Vala

It is shown that the operator sum representation for non-Markovian dynamics and the Lindblad master equation in Markovian limit can be derived from a formal solution to quantum Liouville equation for a qubit system in the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Doyeol Ahn , Jinhyoung Lee , S. W. Hwang

The possible compatibility of density matrices for single-party subsystems is described by linear constraints on their respective spectra. Whenever some of those quantum marginal constraints are saturated, the total quantum state has a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-09 Christian Schilling , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Péter Vrana

We study multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) problems where the underlying cost has a graphical structure. These graphical multi-marginal optimal transport problems have found applications in several domains including traffic flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jiaojiao Fan , Isabel Haasler , Qinsheng Zhang , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

For any tracial non-commutative probability space $(\mathcal{A}, \varphi)$, C\'{e}bron, Dahlqvist, and Male showed that one can always construct an enveloping traffic space $(\mathcal{G}(\mathcal{A}), \tau_\varphi)$ that extends the trace.…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Benson Au , Camille Male

This article studies two notions of generalized matroid representations motivated by algorithmic information theory and cryptographic secret sharing. The first (entropic representability) involves discrete random variables, while the second…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Lukas Kühne , Geva Yashfe

Quantum information has become a powerful tool for probing the structure of quantum field theories, yet its application to gauge theories remains subtle. On the one hand, quantum information theory assumes subsystem locality, i.e.~the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Alberto Spalvieri , Sébastien Christophe Garmier , Flaminia Giacomini

A set of quantum data can look classical in every local test and still fail to admit a single classical explanation of the whole composite system. We formulate this failure as global contextuality. Here global means global in the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Ming Yang

We show a close connection between structural hardness for $k$-partite graphs and tight inapproximability results for scheduling problems with precedence constraints. Assuming a natural but nontrivial generalisation of the bipartite…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Abbas Bazzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard

To formulate the universal constraints of quantum statistics data of generic long-range entangled quantum systems, we introduce the geometric-topology surgery theory on spacetime manifolds where quantum systems reside, cutting and gluing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Juven Wang , Xiao-Gang Wen , Shing-Tung Yau

Stationary quantum information sources emit sequences of correlated qudits -- that is, structured quantum stochastic processes. If an observer performs identical measurements on a qudit sequence, the outcomes are a realization of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 David Gier , James P. Crutchfield

It is not currently known if quantum Turing machines can efficiently simulate probabilistic computations in the space-bounded case. In this paper we show that space-bounded quantum Turing machines can efficiently simulate a limited class of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 John Watrous

This article presents a concrete mathematical framework for the generation of entangled quantum states from classical stochastic processes. We demonstrate that any density operator $\rho_{AB}$ of a composite system can be derived from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Andrei Khrennikov

We study solutions to the multi-marginal Monge-Kantorovich problem which are concentrated on several graphs over the first marginal. We first present two general conditions on the cost function which ensure, respectively, that any solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Abbas Moameni , Brendan Pass

Quantum entanglement can be an effective diagnostic tool for probing topological phases protected by global symmetries. Recently, the notion of nontrivial topology in critical systems has been proposed and is attracting growing attention.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Wen-Hao Zhong , Hai-Qing Lin , Xue-Jia Yu

As a striking manifestation of quantum entanglement, nonlocality has long played a pivotal role in shaping our understanding of the quantum world. When considering a Bell test involving three parties, we may even find a remarkable situation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Kai-Siang Chen , Gelo Noel M. Tabia , Chung-Yun Hsieh , Yu-Chun Yin , Yeong-Cherng Liang

In this work, we characterise the statistics of Markov chains by constructing an associated sequence of periodic differential operators. Studying the density of states of these operators reveals the absolutely continuous invariant measure…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Bryn Davies , Angelica Yu Xiao