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Quantum Information and Computation     ISSN: 1533-7146      published since 2001
Vol.15 No.9&10 July 2015

Tensor networks and graphical calculus for open quantum systems (pp0759-0811)
          
Christopher J. Wood, Jacob D. Biamonte, and David G. Cory
         
doi: https://doi.org/10.26421/QIC15.9-10-3

Abstracts: We describe a graphical calculus for completely positive maps and in doing so review the theory of open quantum systems and other fundamental primitives of quantum information theory using the language of tensor networks. In particular we demonstrate the construction of tensor networks to pictographically represent the Liouville-superoperator, Choi-matrix, process-matrix, Kraus, and system-environment representations for the evolution of quantum states, review how these representations interrelate, and illustrate how graphical manipulations of the tensor networks may be used to concisely transform between them. To further demonstrate the utility of the presented graphical calculus we include several examples where we provide arguably simpler graphical proofs of several useful quantities in quantum information theory including the composition and contraction of multipartite channels, a condition for whether an arbitrary bipartite state may be used for ancilla assisted process tomography, and the derivation of expressions for the average gate fidelity and entanglement fidelity of a channel in terms of each of the different representations of the channel.
Key words: Open quantum systems, quantum operations, completely positive maps, Choi-Jamio lkowski isomorphism, tensor networks, graphical calculus

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