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Unital quantum operators on the Bloch ball and Bloch region

P. S. Bourdon, H. T. Williams

abstract: For one qubit systems, we present a short, elementary argument characterizing unital quantum operators in terms of their action on Bloch vectors. We then show how our approach generalizes to multi-qubit systems, obtaining inequalities that govern when a ``diagonal'' superoperator on the Bloch region is a quantum operator. These inequalities are the n-qubit analogue of the Algoet-Fujiwara conditions. Our work is facilitated by an analysis of operator-sum decompositions in which negative summands are allowed.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0308089
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
Revised and corrected, to appear in Physical Review A
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevA.69.022314
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0308089
created:
2003-08-16
updated:
2003-12-13

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