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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 99, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.062104
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- NSF [PHY-1620541]
- Constance and Walter Burke Special Projects Fund in Quantum Information Science
- QCOS project of the Universita degli Studi di Padova
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We consider the problem of characterizing states of a multipartite quantum system from restricted, quasi-local information, with emphasis on uniquely determined pure states. By leveraging tools from dissipative quantum control theory, we show how the search for states consistent with an assigned list of reduced density matrices may be restricted to a proper subspace, which is determined solely by their supports. The existence of a quasi-local observable which attains its unique minimum over such a subspace further provides a sufficient criterion for a pure state to be uniquely determined by its reduced states. While the condition that a pure state is uniquely determined is necessary for it to arise as a nondegenerate ground state of a quasi-local Hamiltonian, we prove the opposite implication to be false in general, by exhibiting an explicit analytic counterexample. We show how the problem of determining whether a quasi-local parent Hamiltonian admitting a given pure state as its unique ground state is dual, in the sense of semidefinite programming, to the one of determining whether such a state is uniquely determined by the quasi-local information. Failure of this dual program to attain its optimal value is what prevents these two classes of states from coinciding.
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