Geometry of Generalized Depolarizing Channels
Abstract
A generalized depolarizing channel acts on an N-dimensional quantum system to compress the ``Bloch ball'' in N2-1 directions; it has a corresponding compression vector. We investigate the geometry of these compression vectors and prove a conjecture of Dixit and Sudarshan [1], namely that when N=2d (i.e. the system consists of d qubits) and we work in the Pauli basis then the set of all compression vectors forms a simplex. We extend this result by investigating the geometry in other bases; in particular we find precisely when the set of all compression vectors forms a simplex.
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