Tuesday, October 23, 2012

1210.5625 (Daniel Burgarth et al.)

Ergodic and Mixing Quantum Channels in Finite Dimensions    [PDF]

Daniel Burgarth, Giulio Chiribella, Vittorio Giovannetti, Paolo Perinotti, Kazuya Yuasa
The paper provides a systematic characterization of quantum ergodic and mixing channels in finite dimensions and a discussion of their structural properties. Notably, we show that ergodicity is stable under randomizations, namely that every random mixture of an ergodic channel with a generic channel is still ergodic. In addition, we prove several conditions under which ergodicity can be promoted to the stronger property of mixing. Finally, exploiting a suitable correspondence between quantum channels and generators of quantum dynamical semigroups, we extend our results to the realm of continuous-time quantum evolutions, providing a characterization of ergodic Lindblad generators and showing that they are dense in the set of all possible generators.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5625

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