Imaginarity Resource Theory of Gaussian Quantum Channels

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14299v1
• Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 03:05:12 GMT
• Title: Imaginarity Resource Theory of Gaussian Quantum Channels
• Abstract summary: We propose two frameworks for quantifying the imaginarity of Gaussian channels.<n>The first framework regards all real superchannels as free superchannels.<n>The second framework adopts only a proper subset of real superchannels as free superchannels.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Complex numbers play an indispensable role in quantum mechanics and quantum information, as validated by both theoretical analysis and experimental verification. Since quantum information processing inherently relies on quantum channels, the resource theory for quantum channels is equally fundamental to that for quantum states. In this paper, we propose two frameworks for quantifying the imaginarity of Gaussian channels. The first framework regards all real superchannels as free superchannels. Within this setting, we introduce two concrete imaginarity measures for Gaussian channels: I_s^GC based on existing imaginarity measures of Gaussian states, and I_d^GC derived directly from the intrinsic parameters of Gaussian channels, which enjoys high computational simplicity. The second framework adopts only a proper subset of real superchannels as free superchannels. Under this framework, we put forward another imaginarity measure I_c^GC , which is fully determined by the inherent parameters of Gaussian channels and features continuity as well as tractable computation. As a practical application, we employ I_c^GC to investigate the dynamical behavior of Quantum Brownian Motion Gaussian channels throughout the entire evolutionary process.

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