Witness robustness: An operational quantifier of measurement resources via free state discrimination

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27892v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:08:55 GMT
• Title: Witness robustness: An operational quantifier of measurement resources via free state discrimination
• Abstract summary: We introduce the witness robustness of a resource quantifier whose measurements consist of free-state witnesses rather than physical measurements.<n>We identify conditions under which faithfulness is recovered and show that, in resource theories admitting a resource-destroying map, the witness vanishes for every measurement.<n>We derive analytical results for projective measurements in single-qubit magic and for binary pure-state projective measurements in the two-qubit entanglement theory.
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• Abstract: We introduce the witness robustness of quantum measurements, a resource quantifier whose admissible noise consists of tuples of free-state witnesses rather than physical measurements. We establish its operational interpretation: it quantifies the maximal advantage that a measurement can provide over free measurements in discriminating an ensemble composed entirely of free states. Unlike the standard and generalized robustnesses, the witness robustness is not faithful in general, reflecting the fact that a resourceful measurement need not be useful when only free states can be prepared. We identify conditions under which faithfulness is recovered and show that, in resource theories admitting a resource-destroying map, the witness robustness vanishes for every measurement. We also establish fundamental properties, including convexity and monotonicity. Finally, we derive analytical results for projective measurements in single-qubit magic and for binary pure-state projective measurements in the two-qubit PPT entanglement theory.

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