The bottleneck dimension of quantum operations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25010v1
• Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:02:55 GMT
• Title: The bottleneck dimension of quantum operations
• Abstract summary: A noisy universal quantum processor becomes $d$-compressible, $d$-simulable and $d$-embeddable.<n>The thresholds confirm the expectation -- maintaining coherence across the full Hilbert space becomes increasingly demanding.
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• Abstract: Programmable quantum devices nominally act on a Hilbert space whose dimension grows exponentially with the number of constituents, but the presence of noise makes it unlikely that they remain coherent across all of this immense Hilbert space. Then, what is the effective coherent quantum dimension that should be associated with such imperfect devices? To answer this question we here introduce an operational basis-independent framework which imposes a dimension bottleneck on the programmable transformations. Concretely we ask how strongly the quantum information they process can be compressed. Formalizing this idea we identify three inequivalent notions, termed $d$-compressibility, $d$-simulability and $d$-embeddability, which differ in the causal structure used to impose the bottleneck and form a strict hierarchy. The framework unifies several existing notions: joint measurability and simulability of quantum measurements, and the absolute dimensionality of state ensembles, are recovered as special cases. We illustrate the hierarchy with noisy qubit measurements in complementary bases, and we determine the white-noise thresholds at which the set of all noisy unitary channels in dimension $n$, a noisy universal quantum processor, becomes $d$-compressible, $d$-simulable and $d$-embeddable. The thresholds confirm the expectation -- maintaining coherence across the full Hilbert space becomes increasingly demanding as the nominal dimension $n$ increases.

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