Purification Complexity without Purifications

Autor: Shan-Ming Ruan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2021, Iss 1, Pp 1-51 (2021)
Journal of High Energy Physics
Popis: We generalize the Fubini-Study method for pure-state complexity to generic quantum states by taking Bures metric or quantum Fisher information metric on the space of density matrices as the complexity measure. Due to Uhlmann's theorem, we show that the mixed-state complexity exactly equals the purification complexity measured by the Fubini-Study metric for purified states but without explicitly applying any purification. We also find the purification complexity is non-increasing under any trace-preserving quantum operations. We also study the mixed Gaussian states as an example to explicitly illustrate our conclusions for purification complexity.
38+12 pages, 6 figues
Databáze: OpenAIRE