Jordan products of quantum channels and their compatibility

Mark Girard, Martin Plávala () and Jamie Sikora
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Mark Girard: University of Waterloo
Martin Plávala: Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät Universität Siegen
Jamie Sikora: University of Waterloo

Nature Communications, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract Given two quantum channels, we examine the task of determining whether they are compatible—meaning that one can perform both channels simultaneously but, in the future, choose exactly one channel whose output is desired (while forfeiting the output of the other channel). Here, we present several results concerning this task. First, we show it is equivalent to the quantum state marginal problem, i.e., every quantum state marginal problem can be recast as the compatibility of two channels, and vice versa. Second, we show that compatible measure-and-prepare channels (i.e., entanglement-breaking channels) do not necessarily have a measure-and-prepare compatibilizing channel. Third, we extend the notion of the Jordan product of matrices to quantum channels and present sufficient conditions for channel compatibility. These Jordan products and their generalizations might be of independent interest. Last, we formulate the different notions of compatibility as semidefinite programs and numerically test when families of partially dephasing-depolarizing channels are compatible.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22275-0

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