Extreme quantum states and processes, and extreme points of general spectrahedra in finite dimensional algebras

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10929v1
• Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 01:31:16 GMT
• Title: Extreme quantum states and processes, and extreme points of general spectrahedra in finite dimensional algebras
• Authors: Giulio Chiribella
• Abstract summary: Convex sets of quantum states and processes play a central role in quantum theory and quantum information. Many important examples of convex sets in quantum theory are spectrahedra, that is, sets of positive operators subject to affine constraints. This contribution provides a characterisation of the extreme points of general spectrahedra, and bounds on the ranks of the corresponding operators.
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• Abstract: Convex sets of quantum states and processes play a central role in quantum theory and quantum information. Many important examples of convex sets in quantum theory are spectrahedra, that is, sets of positive operators subject to affine constraints. These examples include sets of quantum states with given expectation values of some observables of interest, sets of multipartite quantum states with given marginals, sets of quantum measurements, channels, and multitime quantum processes, as well as sets of higher-order quantum maps and quantum causal structures. This contribution provides a characterisation of the extreme points of general spectrahedra, and bounds on the ranks of the corresponding operators. The general results are applied to several special cases, and are used to retrieve classic results such as Choi's characterisation of the extreme quantum channels, Parhasarathy's characterisation of the extreme quantum states with given marginals, and the quantum version of Birkhoff's theorem for qubit unital channels. Finally, we propose a notion of positive operator valued measures (POVMs) with general affine constraints for their normalisation, and we characterise the extremal POVMs.

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