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Quantifying imaginarity of quantum operations

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09747v1
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:52:44 GMT
Title: Quantifying imaginarity of quantum operations
Authors: Chuanfa Wu, Zhaoqi Wu,
Abstract summary: We present two types of imaginarity measures of quantum operations based on the norm and the weight.<n>The results provide new insights into imaginarity of operations and deepen our understanding of dynamical imaginarity.
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Abstract: Complex numbers are theoretically proved and experimentally confirmed as necessary in quantum mechanics and quantum information, and a resource theory of imaginarity of quantum states has been established. In this work, we establish a framework to quantify the imaginarity of quantum operations from the perspective of the ability to create or detect imaginarity, following the idea by Theurer {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{122}, 190405 (2019)] used in coherence theory. We present two types of imaginarity measures of quantum operations based on the norm and the weight, investigate their properties and relations, and derive the analytical formulas of the measure under the trace norm for qubit unitary operations. The results provide new insights into imaginarity of operations and deepen our understanding of dynamical imaginarity.

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