Motivation
Quantum resource theories (QRTs) provide a unified theoretical framework for understanding inherent quantum-mechanical properties that serve as resources in quantum information processing, but resources motivated by physics may possess intractable mathematical structure to analyze, such as non-uniqueness of maximally resourceful states, lack of convexity, and infinite dimension. We investigate state conversion and resource measures in general QRTs under minimal assumptions to figure out universal properties of physically motivated quantum resources that may have such intractable mathematical structure. In the general setting, we prove the existence of maximally resourceful states in one-shot state conversion. Also analyzing asymptotic state conversion, we discover catalytic replication of quantum resources, where a resource state is infinitely replicable by free operations. In QRTs without assuming uniqueness of maximally resourceful states, we formulate the tasks of distillation and formation of quantum resources, and introduce distillable resource and resource cost based on the distillation and the formation, respectively. Furthermore, we introduce consistent resource measures that quantify the amount of quantum resources without contradicting the rate of state conversion even in QRTs with non-unique maximally resourceful states. Progressing beyond the previous work showing a uniqueness theorem for additive resource measures, we prove the corresponding uniqueness inequality for the consistent resource measures; that is, consistent resource measures of a quantum state take values between the distillable resource and the resource cost of the state. These formulations and results establish a foundation of QRTs applicable to mathematically intractable but physically motivated quantum resources in a unified way.
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Deferred results
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- Theorem 1 (Existence of a Maximally Resourceful State): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: One-shot preorder and maximal-state set from actual free channels; compact state and BW channel topology. (hard)
- Proposition 2: Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Operational free-state predicate quantified over every input system and state, and scalar preparation channel action. (hard)
- Proposition 3: Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Operational F(H), exact maximal G(H), and nonempty resource-state difference. (hard)
- Theorem 4 (Relation Between Two Conversion Rates): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Actual tensor powers, ceil output/floor input achievable rates with liminf-zero trace error, extended supremum and infimum. (hard)
- Theorem 5 (Replication of State): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Operational output conversion rate and actual tensor channels. (hard)
- Proposition 6: Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: One-shot free-map conversion and operational asymptotic rates across two systems. (hard)
- Proposition 7: Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Exact one-shot equivalence and operational conversion rate. (hard)
- Proposition 8: Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Distillable-resource/cost infima with finite nonnegative normalization and catalytic-replicability predicate excluding free states. (hard)
- Theorem 9 (Maximally Resourceful States are Sufficient for Distillable Resource and Resource Cost): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Distillable-resource/cost infima over S(H) and maximal-state restricted infima. (hard)
- Proposition 10: Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Operational preorder and both extended resource infima. (hard)
- Proposition 11: Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Infinite self-conversion rate and the extended RD/RC definitions. (hard)
- Proposition 13: Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Coherent flattening of repeated actual tensor powers and operational rates. (hard)
- Theorem 14 (Weak Subadditivity of Distillable Resource and Resource Cost): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Finite-dimensional specialization of the coherent state-QRT, logarithmic normalization on the whole tensor family, and extended RD/RC. (hard)
- Theorem 15 (Maximally Resourceful State that Maximizes Resource Cost): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Quotient of actual maximal states by exact mutual convertibility, catalytic exclusion on resource states, and operational RC. (hard)
- Theorem 16 (Condition for Distillable Resource Upper-Bounded by Resource Cost): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Operational RD/RC and absence of catalytic replication on resource states. (hard)
- Proposition 18: A valid version of Proposition 18 excluding its all-free, zero-normalization counterexample, or a primary-source correction. (source-ambiguity)
- Proposition 19: Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Real-valued monotone resource-measure family across all systems and genuine tensor weak additivity. (hard)
- Proposition 20 (Uniqueness Inequality): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Resource-measure family, conventional normalization, exponent-normalized asymptotic continuity, weak additivity, operational rates and RD/RC. (hard)
- Theorem 21 (Inconsistency of Conventional Properties of Resource Measure): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Globally monotone measure families with conventional normalization, exponent-normalized asymptotic continuity and weak additivity; operational conversion rate. (hard)
- Proposition 23: Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Real-valued globally monotone measure family with consistency against extended operational rates, and actual state powers. (hard)
- Proposition 24: Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Consistent resource-measure family and operational resource-cost infimum. (hard)
- Proposition 25: Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Consistent resource-measure family and one actual maximal state attaining Rmax, with operational RD. (hard)
- Corollary 26 (abstract uniqueness inequality; original seed): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Consistent resource-measure family, bounded normalization and one maximal saturation witness, with both operational RD/RC infima. (hard)
- Proposition 29: Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Measure family with conventional normalization, weak additivity, correlated-state strong superadditivity and trace-norm lower semicontinuity; operational rates and RD/RC. (hard)
- Remark 2 (minimal elements and free states): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Operational minimal-state set and free states in the coherent QRT, with a nonempty allowed fibre. (hard)
- §3.2, unnumbered (compactness and convexity of free states): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Actual preparation free maps, their BW-compactness, operational F, and convexity of the whole free-map family when assumed. (hard)
- Remark 3 (rounding conventions give the same asymptotic rates): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Ceil/floor variants of both operational achievable-rate sets over coherent tensor powers. (hard)
- Example 6 (Catalytically Replicable Resource): Concrete coherent binary-register QRT with exact generated channels: identity, discard, CNOT and zero-state preparation; liminf operational rate, plus RD/RC for Example 7. (hard)
- Remark 4 (attainment when maximal classes are finite): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Finite quotient of actual maximal states, operational RD/RC and a nonempty allowed fibre. (hard)
- Example 7 (Zero Resource Cost and Infinite Distillable Resource): Concrete coherent binary-register QRT with exact generated channels: identity, discard, CNOT and zero-state preparation; liminf operational rate, plus RD/RC for Example 7. (hard)
- Example 8 (magic has no conventionally normalized continuous additive measure): A pinned magic-QRT channel class on all qutrit tensor powers, maximality under that class, and an achievable Strange-to-Norrell rate greater than one for the same class. (source-ambiguity)
- Remark 7 (normalization can be attained at any state): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Consistent measure with bounded normalization and a saturating arbitrary allowed state; actual maximal-state and RD/RC definitions. (hard)
- §6.4, unnumbered (subadditivity of relative entropy of resource): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Actual operational free-state sets in all tensor systems and extended Umegaki relative-entropy infima in bits. (hard)
- §6.4, unnumbered main result (regularized relative entropy is consistent): Coherent operational state-QRT on actual complete complex Hilbert spaces: designated trace-norm compact allowed density sets; heterogeneous complex-linear CPTP maps with BW-compact free fibres; composition, tensor, identity and trace axioms; scalar density 1; actual completed Hilbert tensors, operator tensors, partial traces and canonical coherent regroupings. Additionally: Coherent finite-dimensional state-QRT with convex free maps and a full-rank operational free state in every system, actual tensor RR regularization, and consistency. (hard)
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