Convex geometry of quantum resource quantification

TL;DR

This paper develops a unified convex geometric framework for quantifying various quantum resources, simplifying calculations, establishing properties, and applying to multiple resource theories like entanglement, coherence, and magic states.

Contribution

It introduces a systematic formalism unifying different quantum resource measures and provides new quantifiers and simplified methods for their computation.

Findings

Many measures satisfy faithfulness and strong monotonicity.

Bounds and relations between different resource measures are established.

Quantification simplifies for pure states, with several measures becoming equal.

Abstract

We introduce a framework unifying the mathematical characterisation of different measures of general quantum resources and allowing for a systematic way to define a variety of faithful quantifiers for any given convex quantum resource theory. The approach allows us to describe many commonly used measures such as matrix norm-based quantifiers, robustness measures, convex roof-based measures, and witness-based quantifiers together in a common formalism based on the convex geometry of the underlying sets of resource-free states. We establish easily verifiable criteria for a measure to possess desirable properties such as faithfulness and strong monotonicity under relevant free operations, and show that many quantifiers obtained in this framework indeed satisfy them for any considered quantum resource. We derive various bounds and relations between the measures, generalising and providing significantly simplified proofs of results found in the resource theories of quantum entanglement and coherence. We also prove that the quantification of resources in this framework simplifies for pure states, allowing us to obtain more easily computable forms of the considered measures and show that several of them are equal on pure states. Further, we investigate the dual formulation of resource quantifiers, characterising sets of resource witnesses. We present an explicit application of the results to the resource theories of multi-level coherence, entanglement of Schmidt number k, multipartite entanglement, as well as magic states, providing insight into the quantification of the resources and introducing new quantifiers, such as a measure of entanglement of Schmidt number k which generalises the convex roof-extended negativity, a measure of k-coherence which generalises the L1 norm of coherence, and a hierarchy of norm-based quantifiers of k-partite entanglement generalising the greatest cross norm.