Fundamental limitations on distillation of quantum channel resources

Bartosz Regula () and Ryuji Takagi ()
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Bartosz Regula: Nanyang Technological University
Ryuji Takagi: Nanyang Technological University

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

Abstract: Abstract 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, expressed in the form of no-go theorems and quantitative bounds for the manipulation of general quantum channel resources under the most general transformation protocols. Focusing on the class of distillation tasks — which can be understood either as the purification of noisy channels into unitary ones, or the extraction of state-based resources from channels — we develop fundamental restrictions on the error incurred in such transformations, and comprehensive lower bounds for the overhead of any distillation protocol. In the asymptotic setting, our results yield broadly applicable bounds for rates of distillation. We demonstrate our results through applications to fault-tolerant quantum computation, where we obtain state-of-the-art lower bounds for the overhead cost of magic state distillation, as well as to quantum communication, where we recover a number of strong converse bounds for quantum channel capacity.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24699-0

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