Symmetry and Asymmetry in Bosonic Gaussian Systems: A Resource-Theoretic Framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25719v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:28:18 GMT
• Title: Symmetry and Asymmetry in Bosonic Gaussian Systems: A Resource-Theoretic Framework
• Authors: Nikolaos Koukoulekidis, Iman Marvian,
• Abstract summary: We focus on Gaussian symmetry-respecting (covariant) operations, which serve as the free operations in this framework.<n>We identify a family of tractable monotone functions of states that remain non-increasing under Gaussian symmetry-respecting dynamics.<n>We demonstrate that these monotones are not generally respected under non-Gaussian symmetry-respecting dynamics.
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• Abstract: We study the interplay of symmetries and Gaussianity in bosonic systems, under closed and open dynamics, and develop a resource theory of Gaussian asymmetry. Specifically, we focus on Gaussian symmetry-respecting (covariant) operations, which serve as the free operations in this framework. We prove that any such operation can be realized via Gaussian Hamiltonians that respect the symmetry under consideration, coupled to an environment prepared in a symmetry-respecting pure Gaussian state. We further identify a family of tractable monotone functions of states that remain non-increasing under Gaussian symmetry-respecting dynamics, and are exactly conserved in closed systems. We demonstrate that these monotones are not generally respected under non-Gaussian symmetry-respecting dynamics. Along the way, we provide several technical results of independent interest to the quantum information and optics communities, including a new approach to the Stinespring dilation theorem, and an extension of Williamson's theorem for the simultaneous normal mode decomposition of Gaussian systems and conserved charges.

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