@article {2251,
title = {Multiparty quantum data hiding with enhanced security and remote deletion},
year = {2018},
pages = {5},
abstract = {
One of the applications of quantum technology is to use quantum states and measurements to communicate which offers more reliable security promises. Quantum data hiding, which gives the source party the ability of sharing data among multiple receivers and revealing it at a later time depending on his/her will, is one of the promising information sharing schemes which may address practical security issues. In this work, we propose a novel quantum data hiding protocol. By concatenating different subprotocols which apply to rather symmetric hiding scenarios, we cover a variety of more general hiding scenarios. We provide the general requirements for constructing such protocols and give explicit examples of encoding states for five parties. We also proved the security of the protocol in sense that the achievable information by unauthorized operations asymptotically goes to zero. In addition, due to the capability of the sender to manipulate his/her subsystem, the sender is able to abort the protocol remotely at any time before he/she reveals the information.
},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01982},
author = {Xingyao Wu and Jianxin Chen}
}
@article {1922,
title = {Quantum algorithm for multivariate polynomial interpolation},
journal = {Proceedings of The Royal Society A},
volume = {474},
year = {2018},
month = {2018/01/17},
abstract = {How many quantum queries are required to determine the coefficients of a degree-d polynomial in n variables? We present and analyze quantum algorithms for this multivariate polynomial interpolation problem over the fields Fq, R, and C. We show that kC and 2kC queries suffice to achieve probability 1 for C and R, respectively, where kC = \⌈ 1 n+1 ( n+d d )\⌉ except for d = 2 and four other special cases. For Fq, we show that \⌈ d n+d ( n+d d )\⌉ queries suffice to achieve probability approaching 1 for large field order q. The classical query complexity of this problem is ( n+d d ), so our result provides a speedup by a factor of n + 1, n+1 2 , and n+d d for C, R, and Fq, respectively. Thus we find a much larger gap between classical and quantum algorithms than the univariate case, where the speedup is by a factor of 2. For the case of Fq, we conjecture that 2kC queries also suffice to achieve probability approaching 1 for large field order q, although we leave this as an open problem.
},
doi = {10.1098/rspa.2017.0480},
url = {http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/474/2209/20170480},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Andrew M. Childs and Shih-Han Hung}
}
@article {1787,
title = {Quantum state tomography via reduced density matrices},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
volume = {118},
year = {2017},
month = {2017/01/09},
pages = {020401},
abstract = {Quantum state tomography via local measurements is an efficient tool for characterizing quantum states. However it requires that the original global state be uniquely determined (UD) by its local reduced density matrices (RDMs). In this work we demonstrate for the first time a class of states that are UD by their RDMs under the assumption that the global state is pure, but fail to be UD in the absence of that assumption. This discovery allows us to classify quantum states according to their UD properties, with the requirement that each class be treated distinctly in the practice of simplifying quantum state tomography. Additionally we experimentally test the feasibility and stability of performing quantum state tomography via the measurement of local RDMs for each class. These theoretical and experimental results advance the project of performing efficient and accurate quantum state tomography in practice.
},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.020401},
url = {http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.020401},
author = {Tao Xin and Dawei Lu and Joel Klassen and Nengkun Yu and Zhengfeng Ji and Jianxin Chen and Xian Ma and Guilu Long and Bei Zeng and Raymond Laflamme}
}
@article {1452,
title = {Detecting Consistency of Overlapping Quantum Marginals by Separability},
journal = {Physical Review A},
volume = {93},
year = {2016},
month = {2016/03/03},
pages = {032105},
abstract = { The quantum marginal problem asks whether a set of given density matrices are
consistent, i.e., whether they can be the reduced density matrices of a global
quantum state. Not many non-trivial analytic necessary (or sufficient)
conditions are known for the problem in general. We propose a method to detect
consistency of overlapping quantum marginals by considering the separability of
some derived states. Our method works well for the $k$-symmetric extension
problem in general, and for the general overlapping marginal problems in some
cases. Our work is, in some sense, the converse to the well-known $k$-symmetric
extension criterion for separability.
},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.93.032105},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06591},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Zhengfeng Ji and Nengkun Yu and Bei Zeng}
}
@article {1925,
title = {A finite presentation of CNOT-dihedral operators},
year = {2016},
month = {2016/12/31},
abstract = {We give a finite presentation by generators and relations of unitary operators expressible over the {CNOT, T, X} gate set, also known as CNOT-dihedral operators. To this end, we introduce a notion of normal form for CNOT-dihedral circuits and prove that every CNOT-dihedral operator admits a unique normal form. Moreover, we show that in the presence of certain structural rules only finitely many circuit identities are required to reduce an arbitrary CNOT-dihedral circuit to its normal form. By appropriately restricting our relations, we obtain a finite presentation of unitary operators expressible over the {CNOT, T } gate set as a corollary.
},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00140},
author = {Matthew Amy and Jianxin Chen and Neil J. Ross}
}
@article {1783,
title = {Joint product numerical range and geometry of reduced density matrices},
year = {2016},
month = {2016/06/23},
abstract = {The reduced density matrices of a many-body quantum system form a convex set, whose three-dimensional projection Θ is convex in R3. The boundary ∂Θ of Θ may exhibit nontrivial geometry, in particular ruled surfaces. Two physical mechanisms are known for the origins of ruled surfaces: symmetry breaking and gapless. In this work, we study the emergence of ruled surfaces for systems with local Hamiltonians in infinite spatial dimension, where the reduced density matrices are known to be separable as a consequence of the quantum de Finetti{\textquoteright}s theorem. This allows us to identify the reduced density matrix geometry with joint product numerical range Π of the Hamiltonian interaction terms. We focus on the case where the interaction terms have certain structures, such that ruled surface emerge naturally when taking a convex hull of Π. We show that, a ruled surface on ∂Θ sitting in Π has a gapless origin, otherwise it has a symmetry breaking origin. As an example, we demonstrate that a famous ruled surface, known as the oloid, is a possible shape of Θ, with two boundary pieces of symmetry breaking origin separated by two gapless lines.},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07422},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Cheng Guo and Zhengfeng Ji and Yiu-Tung Poon and Nengkun Yu and Bei Zeng and Jie Zhou}
}
@article {1706,
title = {Pure-state tomography with the expectation value of Pauli operators},
journal = {Physical Review A},
volume = {93},
year = {2016},
month = {2016/03/31},
pages = {032140},
abstract = {We examine the problem of finding the minimum number of Pauli measurements needed to uniquely determine an arbitrary n-qubit pure state among all quantum states. We show that only 11 Pauli measurements are needed to determine an arbitrary two-qubit pure state compared to the full quantum state tomography with 16 measurements, and only 31 Pauli measurements are needed to determine an arbitrary three-qubit pure state compared to the full quantum state tomography with 64 measurements. We demonstrate that our protocol is robust under depolarizing error with simulated random pure states. We experimentally test the protocol on two- and three-qubit systems with nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. We show that the pure state tomography protocol saves us a number of measurements without considerable loss of fidelity. We compare our protocol with same-size sets of randomly selected Pauli operators and find that our selected set of Pauli measurements significantly outperforms those random sampling sets. As a direct application, our scheme can also be used to reduce the number of settings needed for pure-state tomography in quantum optical systems.
},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.032140},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05379},
author = {Xian Ma and Tyler Jackson and Hui Zhou and Jianxin Chen and Dawei Lu and Michael D. Mazurek and Kent A.G. Fisher and Xinhua Peng and David Kribs and Kevin J. Resch and Zhengfeng Ji and Bei Zeng and Raymond Laflamme}
}
@article {1707,
title = {Quantifying the coherence of pure quantum states},
journal = {Physical Review A},
volume = {94},
year = {2016},
month = {2016/10/07},
pages = {042313},
abstract = {In recent years, several measures have been proposed for characterizing the coherence of a given quantum state. We derive several results that illuminate how these measures behave when restricted to pure states. Notably, we present an explicit characterization of the closest incoherent state to a given pure state under the trace distance measure of coherence, and we affirm a recent conjecture that the l1 measure of coherence of a pure state is never smaller than its relative entropy of coherence. We then use our result to show that the states maximizing the trace distance of coherence are exactly the maximally coherent states, and we derive a new inequality relating the negativity and distillable entanglement of pure states.
},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.94.042313},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.042313},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Nathaniel Johnston and Chi-Kwong Li and Sarah Plosker}
}
@article {1689,
title = {Tomography is necessary for universal entanglement detection with single-copy observables},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
volume = {116},
year = {2016},
month = {2016/06/07},
pages = {230501},
abstract = {Entanglement, one of the central mysteries of quantum mechanics, plays an essential role in numerous applications of quantum information theory. A natural question of both theoretical and experimental importance is whether universal entanglement detection is possible without full state tomography. In this work, we prove a no-go theorem that rules out this possibility for any non-adaptive schemes that employ single-copy measurements only. We also examine in detail a previously implemented experiment, which claimed to detect entanglement of two-qubit states via adaptive single-copy measurements without full state tomography. By performing the experiment and analyzing the data, we demonstrate that the information gathered is indeed sufficient to reconstruct the state. These results reveal a fundamental limit for single-copy measurements in entanglement detection, and provides a general framework to study the detection of other interesting properties of quantum states, such as the positivity of partial transpose and the k-symmetric extendibility.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.230501},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00581},
author = {Dawei Lu and Tao Xin and Nengkun Yu and Zhengfeng Ji and Jianxin Chen and Guilu Long and Jonathan Baugh and Xinhua Peng and Bei Zeng and Raymond Laflamme}
}
@article {1462,
title = {Discontinuity of Maximum Entropy Inference and Quantum Phase Transitions},
journal = {New Journal of Physics},
volume = {17},
year = {2015},
month = {2015/08/10},
pages = {083019},
abstract = { In this paper, we discuss the connection between two genuinely quantum
phenomena --- the discontinuity of quantum maximum entropy inference and
quantum phase transitions at zero temperature. It is shown that the
discontinuity of the maximum entropy inference of local observable measurements
signals the non-local type of transitions, where local density matrices of the
ground state change smoothly at the transition point. We then propose to use
the quantum conditional mutual information of the ground state as an indicator
to detect the discontinuity and the non-local type of quantum phase transitions
in the thermodynamic limit.
},
doi = {10.1088/1367-2630/17/8/083019},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5046v2},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Zhengfeng Ji and Chi-Kwong Li and Yiu-Tung Poon and Yi Shen and Nengkun Yu and Bei Zeng and Duanlu Zhou}
}
@article {1440,
title = {The Minimum Size of Unextendible Product Bases in the Bipartite Case (and Some Multipartite Cases)
},
journal = {Communications in Mathematical Physics},
volume = {333},
year = {2015},
month = {2014/10/10},
pages = {351 - 365},
abstract = { A long-standing open question asks for the minimum number of vectors needed
to form an unextendible product basis in a given bipartite or multipartite
Hilbert space. A partial solution was found by Alon and Lovasz in 2001, but
since then only a few other cases have been solved. We solve all remaining
bipartite cases, as well as a large family of multipartite cases.
},
doi = {10.1007/s00220-014-2186-7},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1406v1},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Nathaniel Johnston}
}
@article {1450,
title = {Universal Subspaces for Local Unitary Groups of Fermionic Systems},
journal = {Communications in Mathematical Physics},
volume = {333},
year = {2015},
month = {2014/10/10},
pages = {541 - 563},
abstract = { Let $\mathcal{V}=\wedge^N V$ be the $N$-fermion Hilbert space with
$M$-dimensional single particle space $V$ and $2N\le M$. We refer to the
unitary group $G$ of $V$ as the local unitary (LU) group. We fix an orthonormal
(o.n.) basis $\ket{v_1},...,\ket{v_M}$ of $V$. Then the Slater determinants
$e_{i_1,...,i_N}:= \ket{v_{i_1}\we v_{i_2}\we...\we v_{i_N}}$ with
$i_1<...3. If $M$ is even, the well known BCS states are not LU-equivalent to any
single occupancy state. Our main result is that for N=3 and $M$ even there is a
universal subspace $\cW\subseteq\cS$ spanned by $M(M-1)(M-5)/6$ states
$e_{i_1,...,i_N}$. Moreover the number $M(M-1)(M-5)/6$ is minimal.
},
doi = {10.1007/s00220-014-2187-6},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3421v2},
author = {Lin Chen and Jianxin Chen and Dragomir Z. Djokovic and Bei Zeng}
}
@article {1451,
title = {Symmetric Extension of Two-Qubit States},
journal = {Physical Review A},
volume = {90},
year = {2014},
month = {2014/9/17},
abstract = { Quantum key distribution uses public discussion protocols to establish shared
secret keys. In the exploration of ultimate limits to such protocols, the
property of symmetric extendibility of underlying bipartite states $\rho_{AB}$
plays an important role. A bipartite state $\rho_{AB}$ is symmetric extendible
if there exits a tripartite state $\rho_{ABB{\textquoteright}}$, such that the $AB$ marginal
state is identical to the $AB{\textquoteright}$ marginal state, i.e. $\rho_{AB{\textquoteright}}=\rho_{AB}$.
For a symmetric extendible state $\rho_{AB}$, the first task of the public
discussion protocol is to break this symmetric extendibility. Therefore to
characterize all bi-partite quantum states that possess symmetric extensions is
of vital importance. We prove a simple analytical formula that a two-qubit
state $\rho_{AB}$ admits a symmetric extension if and only if
$\tr(\rho_B^2)\geq \tr(\rho_{AB}^2)-4\sqrt{\det{\rho_{AB}}}$. Given the
intimate relationship between the symmetric extension problem and the quantum
marginal problem, our result also provides the first analytical necessary and
sufficient condition for the quantum marginal problem with overlapping
marginals.
},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.90.032318},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3530v2},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Zhengfeng Ji and David Kribs and Norbert L{\"u}tkenhaus and Bei Zeng}
}
@article {1445,
title = {Unextendible Product Basis for Fermionic Systems},
journal = {Journal of Mathematical Physics},
volume = {55},
year = {2014},
month = {2014/01/01},
pages = {082207},
abstract = { We discuss the concept of unextendible product basis (UPB) and generalized
UPB for fermionic systems, using Slater determinants as an analogue of product
states, in the antisymmetric subspace $\wedge^ N \bC^M$. We construct an
explicit example of generalized fermionic unextendible product basis (FUPB) of
minimum cardinality $N(M-N)+1$ for any $N\ge2,M\ge4$. We also show that any
bipartite antisymmetric space $\wedge^ 2 \bC^M$ of codimension two is spanned
by Slater determinants, and the spaces of higher codimension may not be spanned
by Slater determinants. Furthermore, we construct an example of complex FUPB of
$N=2,M=4$ with minimum cardinality $5$. In contrast, we show that a real FUPB
does not exist for $N=2,M=4$ . Finally we provide a systematic construction for
FUPBs of higher dimensions using FUPBs and UPBs of lower dimensions.
},
doi = {10.1063/1.4893358},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4218v1},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Lin Chen and Bei Zeng}
}
@article {1460,
title = {Symmetries of Codeword Stabilized Quantum Codes},
journal = {8th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2013)},
volume = {22},
year = {2013},
month = {2013/03/28},
pages = {192-206},
abstract = { Symmetry is at the heart of coding theory. Codes with symmetry, especially
cyclic codes, play an essential role in both theory and practical applications
of classical error-correcting codes. Here we examine symmetry properties for
codeword stabilized (CWS) quantum codes, which is the most general framework
for constructing quantum error-correcting codes known to date. A CWS code Q can
be represented by a self-dual additive code S and a classical code C, i.,e.,
Q=(S,C), however this representation is in general not unique. We show that for
any CWS code Q with certain permutation symmetry, one can always find a
self-dual additive code S with the same permutation symmetry as Q such that
Q=(S,C). As many good CWS codes have been found by starting from a chosen S,
this ensures that when trying to find CWS codes with certain permutation
symmetry, the choice of S with the same symmetry will suffice. A key step for
this result is a new canonical representation for CWS codes, which is given in
terms of a unique decomposition as union stabilizer codes. For CWS codes, so
far mainly the standard form (G,C) has been considered, where G is a graph
state. We analyze the symmetry of the corresponding graph of G, which in
general cannot possess the same permutation symmetry as Q. We show that it is
indeed the case for the toric code on a square lattice with translational
symmetry, even if its encoding graph can be chosen to be translational
invariant.
},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2013.192},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.7020v2},
author = {Salman Beigi and Jianxin Chen and Markus Grassl and Zhengfeng Ji and Qiang Wang and Bei Zeng}
}
@article {1459,
title = {Uniqueness of Quantum States Compatible with Given Measurement Results},
journal = {Physical Review A},
volume = {88},
year = {2013},
month = {2013/7/11},
abstract = { We discuss the uniqueness of quantum states compatible with given results for
measuring a set of observables. For a given pure state, we consider two
different types of uniqueness: (1) no other pure state is compatible with the
same measurement results and (2) no other state, pure or mixed, is compatible
with the same measurement results. For case (1), it is known that for a
d-dimensional Hilbert space, there exists a set of 4d-5 observables that
uniquely determines any pure state. We show that for case (2), 5d-7 observables
suffice to uniquely determine any pure state. Thus there is a gap between the
results for (1) and (2), and we give some examples to illustrate this. The case
of observables corresponding to reduced density matrices (RDMs) of a
multipartite system is also discussed, where we improve known bounds on local
dimensions for case (2) in which almost all pure states are uniquely determined
by their RDMs. We further discuss circumstances where (1) can imply (2). We use
convexity of the numerical range of operators to show that when only two
observables are measured, (1) always implies (2). More generally, if there is a
compact group of symmetries of the state space which has the span of the
observables measured as the set of fixed points, then (1) implies (2). We
analyze the possible dimensions for the span of such observables. Our results
extend naturally to the case of low rank quantum states.
},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.88.012109},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3503v2},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Hillary Dawkins and Zhengfeng Ji and Nathaniel Johnston and David Kribs and Frederic Shultz and Bei Zeng}
}
@article {1444,
title = {Universal Entanglers for Bosonic and Fermionic Systems},
year = {2013},
month = {2013/05/31},
abstract = { A universal entangler (UE) is a unitary operation which maps all pure product
states to entangled states. It is known that for a bipartite system of
particles $1,2$ with a Hilbert space $\mathbb{C}^{d_1}\otimes\mathbb{C}^{d_2}$,
a UE exists when $\min{(d_1,d_2)}\geq 3$ and $(d_1,d_2)\neq (3,3)$. It is also
known that whenever a UE exists, almost all unitaries are UEs; however to
verify whether a given unitary is a UE is very difficult since solving a
quadratic system of equations is NP-hard in general. This work examines the
existence and construction of UEs of bipartite bosonic/fermionic systems whose
wave functions sit in the symmetric/antisymmetric subspace of
$\mathbb{C}^{d}\otimes\mathbb{C}^{d}$. The development of a theory of UEs for
these types of systems needs considerably different approaches from that used
for UEs of distinguishable systems. This is because the general entanglement of
identical particle systems cannot be discussed in the usual way due to the
effect of (anti)-symmetrization which introduces "pseudo entanglement" that is
inaccessible in practice. We show that, unlike the distinguishable particle
case, UEs exist for bosonic/fermionic systems with Hilbert spaces which are
symmetric (resp. antisymmetric) subspaces of
$\mathbb{C}^{d}\otimes\mathbb{C}^{d}$ if and only if $d\geq 3$ (resp. $d\geq
8$). To prove this we employ algebraic geometry to reason about the different
algebraic structures of the bosonic/fermionic systems. Additionally, due to the
relatively simple coherent state form of unentangled bosonic states, we are
able to give the explicit constructions of two bosonic UEs. Our investigation
provides insight into the entanglement properties of systems of
indisitinguishable particles, and in particular underscores the difference
between the entanglement structures of bosonic, fermionic and distinguishable
particle systems.
},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.7489v1},
author = {Joel Klassen and Jianxin Chen and Bei Zeng}
}
@article {1458,
title = {Comment on some results of Erdahl and the convex structure of reduced density matrices},
journal = {Journal of Mathematical Physics},
volume = {53},
year = {2012},
month = {2012/05/16},
pages = {072203},
abstract = { In J. Math. Phys. 13, 1608-1621 (1972), Erdahl considered the convex
structure of the set of $N$-representable 2-body reduced density matrices in
the case of fermions. Some of these results have a straightforward extension to
the $m$-body setting and to the more general quantum marginal problem. We
describe these extensions, but can not resolve a problem in the proof of
Erdahl{\textquoteright}s claim that every extreme point is exposed in finite dimensions.
Nevertheless, we can show that when $2m \geq N$ every extreme point of the set
of $N$-representable $m$-body reduced density matrices has a unique pre-image
in both the symmetric and anti-symmetric setting. Moreover, this extends to the
quantum marginal setting for a pair of complementary $m$-body and $(N-m)$-body
reduced density matrices.
},
doi = {10.1063/1.4736842},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3682v1},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Zhengfeng Ji and Mary Beth Ruskai and Bei Zeng and Duan-Lu Zhou}
}
@article {1443,
title = {Correlations in excited states of local Hamiltonians},
journal = {Physical Review A},
volume = {85},
year = {2012},
month = {2012/4/9},
abstract = { Physical properties of the ground and excited states of a $k$-local
Hamiltonian are largely determined by the $k$-particle reduced density matrices
($k$-RDMs), or simply the $k$-matrix for fermionic systems---they are at least
enough for the calculation of the ground state and excited state energies.
Moreover, for a non-degenerate ground state of a $k$-local Hamiltonian, even
the state itself is completely determined by its $k$-RDMs, and therefore
contains no genuine ${>}k$-particle correlations, as they can be inferred from
$k$-particle correlation functions. It is natural to ask whether a similar
result holds for non-degenerate excited states. In fact, for fermionic systems,
it has been conjectured that any non-degenerate excited state of a 2-local
Hamiltonian is simultaneously a unique ground state of another 2-local
Hamiltonian, hence is uniquely determined by its 2-matrix. And a weaker version
of this conjecture states that any non-degenerate excited state of a 2-local
Hamiltonian is uniquely determined by its 2-matrix among all the pure
$n$-particle states. We construct explicit counterexamples to show that both
conjectures are false. It means that correlations in excited states of local
Hamiltonians could be dramatically different from those in ground states. We
further show that any non-degenerate excited state of a $k$-local Hamiltonian
is a unique ground state of another $2k$-local Hamiltonian, hence is uniquely
determined by its $2k$-RDMs (or $2k$-matrix).
},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.85.040303},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1373v2},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Zhengfeng Ji and Zhaohui Wei and Bei Zeng}
}
@article {1448,
title = {From Ground States to Local Hamiltonians},
journal = {Physical Review A},
volume = {86},
year = {2012},
month = {2012/8/30},
abstract = { Traditional quantum physics solves ground states for a given Hamiltonian,
while quantum information science asks for the existence and construction of
certain Hamiltonians for given ground states. In practical situations, one
would be mainly interested in local Hamiltonians with certain interaction
patterns, such as nearest neighbour interactions on some type of lattices. A
necessary condition for a space $V$ to be the ground-state space of some local
Hamiltonian with a given interaction pattern, is that the maximally mixed state
supported on $V$ is uniquely determined by its reduced density matrices
associated with the given pattern, based on the principle of maximum entropy.
However, it is unclear whether this condition is in general also sufficient. We
examine the situations for the existence of such a local Hamiltonian to have
$V$ satisfying the necessary condition mentioned above as its ground-state
space, by linking to faces of the convex body of the local reduced states. We
further discuss some methods for constructing the corresponding local
Hamiltonians with given interaction patterns, mainly from physical points of
view, including constructions related to perturbation methods, local
frustration-free Hamiltonians, as well as thermodynamical ensembles.
},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.86.022339},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6583v4},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Zhengfeng Ji and Bei Zeng and D. L. Zhou}
}
@article {1454,
title = {Ground-State Spaces of Frustration-Free Hamiltonians},
journal = {Journal of Mathematical Physics},
volume = {53},
year = {2012},
month = {2012/01/01},
pages = {102201},
abstract = { We study the ground-state space properties for frustration-free Hamiltonians.
We introduce a concept of {\textquoteleft}reduced spaces{\textquoteright} to characterize local structures of
ground-state spaces. For a many-body system, we characterize mathematical
structures for the set $\Theta_k$ of all the $k$-particle reduced spaces, which
with a binary operation called join forms a semilattice that can be interpreted
as an abstract convex structure. The smallest nonzero elements in $\Theta_k$,
called atoms, are analogs of extreme points. We study the properties of atoms
in $\Theta_k$ and discuss its relationship with ground states of $k$-local
frustration-free Hamiltonians. For spin-1/2 systems, we show that all the atoms
in $\Theta_2$ are unique ground states of some 2-local frustration-free
Hamiltonians. Moreover, we show that the elements in $\Theta_k$ may not be the
join of atoms, indicating a richer structure for $\Theta_k$ beyond the convex
structure. Our study of $\Theta_k$ deepens the understanding of ground-state
space properties for frustration-free Hamiltonians, from a new angle of reduced
spaces.
},
doi = {10.1063/1.4748527},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0762v1},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Zhengfeng Ji and David Kribs and Zhaohui Wei and Bei Zeng}
}
@article {1449,
title = {Minimum Entangling Power is Close to Its Maximum},
year = {2012},
month = {2012/10/04},
abstract = { Given a quantum gate $U$ acting on a bipartite quantum system, its maximum
(average, minimum) entangling power is the maximum (average, minimum)
entanglement generation with respect to certain entanglement measure when the
inputs are restricted to be product states. In this paper, we mainly focus on
the {\textquoteright}weakest{\textquoteright} one, i.e., the minimum entangling power, among all these
entangling powers. We show that, by choosing von Neumann entropy of reduced
density operator or Schmidt rank as entanglement measure, even the {\textquoteright}weakest{\textquoteright}
entangling power is generically very close to its maximal possible entanglement
generation. In other words, maximum, average and minimum entangling powers are
generically close. We then study minimum entangling power with respect to other
Lipschitiz-continuous entanglement measures and generalize our results to
multipartite quantum systems.
As a straightforward application, a random quantum gate will almost surely be
an intrinsically fault-tolerant entangling device that will always transform
every low-entangled state to near-maximally entangled state.
},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1296v1},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Zhengfeng Ji and David W Kribs and Bei Zeng}
}
@article {1439,
title = {Non-Additivity of the Entanglement of Purification (Beyond Reasonable Doubt)
},
year = {2012},
month = {2012/06/06},
abstract = { We demonstrate the convexity of the difference between the regularized
entanglement of purification and the entropy, as a function of the state. This
is proved by means of a new asymptotic protocol to prepare a state from
pre-shared entanglement and by local operations only. We go on to employ this
convexity property in an investigation of the additivity of the (single-copy)
entanglement of purification: using numerical results for two-qubit Werner
states we find strong evidence that the entanglement of purification is
different from its regularization, hence that entanglement of purification is
not additive.
},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1307v1},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Andreas Winter}
}
@article {1456,
title = {Rank Reduction for the Local Consistency Problem},
journal = {Journal of Mathematical Physics},
volume = {53},
year = {2012},
month = {2012/02/09},
pages = {022202},
abstract = { We address the problem of how simple a solution can be for a given quantum
local consistency instance. More specifically, we investigate how small the
rank of the global density operator can be if the local constraints are known
to be compatible. We prove that any compatible local density operators can be
satisfied by a low rank global density operator. Then we study both fermionic
and bosonic versions of the N-representability problem as applications. After
applying the channel-state duality, we prove that any compatible local channels
can be obtained through a global quantum channel with small Kraus rank.
},
doi = {10.1063/1.3685644},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3235v2},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Zhengfeng Ji and Alexander Klyachko and David W. Kribs and Bei Zeng}
}
@article {1457,
title = {Entanglement can completely defeat quantum noise},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
volume = {107},
year = {2011},
month = {2011/12/15},
abstract = { We describe two quantum channels that individually cannot send any
information, even classical, without some chance of decoding error. But
together a single use of each channel can send quantum information perfectly
reliably. This proves that the zero-error classical capacity exhibits
superactivation, the extreme form of the superadditivity phenomenon in which
entangled inputs allow communication over zero capacity channels. But our
result is stronger still, as it even allows zero-error quantum communication
when the two channels are combined. Thus our result shows a new remarkable way
in which entanglement across two systems can be used to resist noise, in this
case perfectly. We also show a new form of superactivation by entanglement
shared between sender and receiver.
},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.250504},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0540v1},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Toby S. Cubitt and Aram W. Harrow and Graeme Smith}
}
@article {1447,
title = {No-go Theorem for One-way Quantum Computing on Naturally Occurring Two-level Systems
},
journal = {Physical Review A},
volume = {83},
year = {2011},
month = {2011/5/9},
abstract = { One-way quantum computing achieves the full power of quantum computation by
performing single particle measurements on some many-body entangled state,
known as the resource state. As single particle measurements are relatively
easy to implement, the preparation of the resource state becomes a crucial
task. An appealing approach is simply to cool a strongly correlated quantum
many-body system to its ground state. In addition to requiring the ground state
of the system to be universal for one-way quantum computing, we also want the
Hamiltonian to have non-degenerate ground state protected by a fixed energy
gap, to involve only two-body interactions, and to be frustration-free so that
measurements in the course of the computation leave the remaining particles in
the ground space. Recently, significant efforts have been made to the search of
resource states that appear naturally as ground states in spin lattice systems.
The approach is proved to be successful in spin-5/2 and spin-3/2 systems. Yet,
it remains an open question whether there could be such a natural resource
state in a spin-1/2, i.e., qubit system. Here, we give a negative answer to
this question by proving that it is impossible for a genuinely entangled qubit
states to be a non-degenerate ground state of any two-body frustration-free
Hamiltonian. What is more, we prove that every spin-1/2 frustration-free
Hamiltonian with two-body interaction always has a ground state that is a
product of single- or two-qubit states, a stronger result that is interesting
independent of the context of one-way quantum computing.
},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.83.050301},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3787v1},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Xie Chen and Runyao Duan and Zhengfeng Ji and Bei Zeng}
}
@article {1446,
title = {Superactivation of the Asymptotic Zero-Error Classical Capacity of a Quantum Channel},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Theory},
volume = {57},
year = {2011},
month = {2011/12/01},
pages = {8114 - 8126},
abstract = { The zero-error classical capacity of a quantum channel is the asymptotic rate
at which it can be used to send classical bits perfectly, so that they can be
decoded with zero probability of error. We show that there exist pairs of
quantum channels, neither of which individually have any zero-error capacity
whatsoever (even if arbitrarily many uses of the channels are available), but
such that access to even a single copy of both channels allows classical
information to be sent perfectly reliably. In other words, we prove that the
zero-error classical capacity can be superactivated. This result is the first
example of superactivation of a classical capacity of a quantum channel.
},
doi = {10.1109/TIT.2011.2169109},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2547v3},
author = {Toby S. Cubitt and Jianxin Chen and Aram W. Harrow}
}
@article {1442,
title = {Optimal Perfect Distinguishability between Unitaries and Quantum Operations
},
year = {2010},
month = {2010/10/12},
abstract = { We study optimal perfect distinguishability between a unitary and a general
quantum operation. In 2-dimensional case we provide a simple sufficient and
necessary condition for sequential perfect distinguishability and an analytical
formula of optimal query time. We extend the sequential condition to general
d-dimensional case. Meanwhile, we provide an upper bound and a lower bound for
optimal sequential query time. In the process a new iterative method is given,
the most notable innovation of which is its independence to auxiliary systems
or entanglement. Following the idea, we further obtain an upper bound and a
lower bound of (entanglement-assisted) q-maximal fidelities between a unitary
and a quantum operation. Thus by the recursion in [1] an upper bound and a
lower bound for optimal general perfect discrimination are achieved. Finally
our lower bound result can be extended to the case of arbitrary two quantum
operations.
},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.2298v1},
author = {Cheng Lu and Jianxin Chen and Runyao Duan}
}
@article {1455,
title = {Principle of Maximum Entropy and Ground Spaces of Local Hamiltonians},
year = {2010},
month = {2010/10/13},
abstract = { The structure of the ground spaces of quantum systems consisting of local
interactions is of fundamental importance to different areas of physics. In
this Letter, we present a necessary and sufficient condition for a subspace to
be the ground space of a k-local Hamiltonian. Our analysis are motivated by the
concept of irreducible correlations studied by [Linden et al., PRL 89, 277906]
and [Zhou, PRL 101, 180505], which is in turn based on the principle of maximum
entropy. It establishes a better understanding of the ground spaces of local
Hamiltonians and builds an intimate link of ground spaces to the correlations
of quantum states.
},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.2739v4},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Zhengfeng Ji and Mary Beth Ruskai and Bei Zeng and Duanlu Zhou}
}
@article {1438,
title = {Ancilla-Assisted Discrimination of Quantum Gates},
year = {2008},
month = {2008/09/02},
abstract = { The intrinsic idea of superdense coding is to find as many gates as possible
such that they can be perfectly discriminated. In this paper, we consider a new
scheme of discrimination of quantum gates, called ancilla-assisted
discrimination, in which a set of quantum gates on a $d-$dimensional system are
perfectly discriminated with assistance from an $r-$dimensional ancilla system.
The main contribution of the present paper is two-fold: (1) The number of
quantum gates that can be discriminated in this scheme is evaluated. We prove
that any $rd+1$ quantum gates cannot be perfectly discriminated with assistance
from the ancilla, and there exist $rd$ quantum gates which can be perfectly
discriminated with assistance from the ancilla. (2) The dimensionality of the
minimal ancilla system is estimated. We prove that there exists a constant
positive number $c$ such that for any $k\leq cr$ quantum gates, if they are
$d$-assisted discriminable, then they are also $r$-assisted discriminable, and
there are $c^{\prime}r\textrm{}(c^{\prime}>c)$ different quantum gates which
can be discriminated with a $d-$dimensional ancilla, but they cannot be
discriminated if the ancilla is reduced to an $r-$dimensional system. Thus, the
order $O(r)$ of the number of quantum gates that can be discriminated with
assistance from an $r-$dimensional ancilla is optimal. The results reported in
this paper represent a preliminary step toward understanding the role ancilla
system plays in discrimination of quantum gates as well as the power and limit
of superdense coding.
},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0336v1},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Mingsheng Ying}
}
@article {1453,
title = {Existence of Universal Entangler},
journal = {Journal of Mathematical Physics},
volume = {49},
year = {2008},
month = {2008/01/01},
pages = {012103},
abstract = { A gate is called entangler if it transforms some (pure) product states to
entangled states. A universal entangler is a gate which transforms all product
states to entangled states. In practice, a universal entangler is a very
powerful device for generating entanglements, and thus provides important
physical resources for accomplishing many tasks in quantum computing and
quantum information. This Letter demonstrates that a universal entangler always
exists except for a degenerated case. Nevertheless, the problem how to find a
universal entangler remains open.
},
doi = {10.1063/1.2829895},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1473v2},
author = {Jianxin Chen and Runyao Duan and Zhengfeng Ji and Mingsheng Ying and Jun Yu}
}
@article {1441,
title = {The LU-LC conjecture is false},
year = {2007},
month = {2007/09/09},
abstract = { The LU-LC conjecture is an important open problem concerning the structure of
entanglement of states described in the stabilizer formalism. It states that
two local unitary equivalent stabilizer states are also local Clifford
equivalent. If this conjecture were true, the local equivalence of stabilizer
states would be extremely easy to characterize. Unfortunately, however, based
on the recent progress made by Gross and Van den Nest, we find that the
conjecture is false.
},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1266v2},
author = {Zhengfeng Ji and Jianxin Chen and Zhaohui Wei and Mingsheng Ying}
}