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Title: Conditions for uniqueness of product representations for separable quantum channels and separable quantum states

Journal Article · · Journal of Mathematical Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4883400· OSTI ID:22306184
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  1. Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon 97201 (United States)

We give a sufficient condition that an operator sum representation of a separable quantum channel in terms of product operators is the unique product representation for that channel, and then provide examples of such channels for any number of parties. This result has implications for efforts to determine whether or not a given separable channel can be exactly implemented by local operations and classical communication. By the Choi-Jamiolkowski isomorphism, it also translates to a condition for the uniqueness of product state ensembles representing a given quantum state. These ideas follow from considerations concerning whether or not a subspace spanned by a given set of product operators contains at least one additional product operator.

OSTI ID:
22306184
Journal Information:
Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 55, Issue 6; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0022-2488
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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