Characterizing the structure of preserved information in quantum processes |
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Authors: | Blume-Kohout Robin Ng Hui Khoon Poulin David Viola Lorenza |
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Institution: | Institute for Quantum Information, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. |
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Abstract: | We introduce a general operational characterization of information-preserving structures-encompassing noiseless subsystems, decoherence-free subspaces, pointer bases, and error-correcting codes-by demonstrating that they are isometric to fixed points of unital quantum processes. Using this, we show that every information-preserving structure is a matrix algebra. We further establish a structure theorem for the fixed states and observables of an arbitrary process, which unifies the Schr?dinger and Heisenberg pictures, places restrictions on physically allowed kinds of information, and provides an efficient algorithm for finding all noiseless and unitarily noiseless subsystems of the process. |
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