Tighter uncertainty relations based on modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew information of quantum channels
Abstract
We use a novel formation to illustrate the () modified
weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson (() MWWYD) skew
information of quantum channels. By using operator norm
inequalities, we explore the sum uncertainty relations for arbitrary
quantum channels and for unitary channels. These uncertainty
inequalities are shown to be tighter than the existing ones by a detailed
example. Our results are also applicable to the modified weighted
Wigner-Yanase-Dyson (MWWYD) skew information and the ()
modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson (() MWWYD) skew
information of quantum channels as special cases.
Keywords: Uncertainty relation; () MWWYD skew information; Quantum channel
1. Introduction
As an extremely important issue in quantum physics, the uncertainty
principle has been widespread concerned since Heisenberg [1]
proposed the notions of uncertainties in measuring non-commuting
observables. Based on the variance of measurement outcomes the well-known Heisenberg-Robertson
uncertainty relation [2] says that for
arbitrary two observables and with respect to a quantum
state , one has
(1) |
where and is the standard deviation of an observable .
There are also many ways to describe uncertainty relations, such as entropy [3, 4, 5, 6, 7], variance [8, 9, 10, 11] and majorization techniques [13, 12, 14, 15]. In particular, the quantum uncertainty can also be characterized by skew information. The skew information has been initially proposed by Wigner and Yanase [16], termed as Wigner-Yanase (WY) skew information. Then a more general quantity has been suggested by Dyson, called the Wigner-Yanase-Dyson (WYD) skew information [16]. This quantity has been further generalized in [17] and termed as generalized Wigner-Yanase-Dyson (GWYD) skew information. The uncertainty relations based on WY skew information, WYD skew information and GWYD skew information have been studied extensively [18, 20, 21, 19, 22, 23].
For a quantum state and an observable , Furuichi, Yanagi and Kuriyama [24] defined another generalized Wigner-Yanase skew information,
(2) |
which, called as the weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson (WWYD) skew information in [23], is different from WYD skew information. Chen, Liang, Li and Wang [25] proposed then a generalized Wigner-Yanase skew information for arbitrary operator (not necessarily Hermitian),
(3) |
which is termed as the modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson (MWWYD) skew information in [23]. By replacing the arithmetic mean of and with their convex combination, the two-parameter extension of the Wigner-Yanase skew information is introduced in [26],
(4) |
which is called the weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson ( WWYD) skew information in [27]. Note that Eq. (Tighter uncertainty relations based on modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew information of quantum channels) reduces to Eq. (2) when .
We defined the weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson ( WWYD) skew information as [27],
(5) |
which reduces to Eq. (Tighter uncertainty relations based on modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew information of quantum channels) when . We also defined the modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson ( MWWYD) skew information with respect to a quantum state and an arbitrary operator (not necessarily Hermitian) in [27] as
(6) |
which is the non-Hermitian extension of the WWYD skew information. Eq. (Tighter uncertainty relations based on modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew information of quantum channels) reduces to Eq. (Tighter uncertainty relations based on modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew information of quantum channels) in [23] when . When , we obtain the modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson ( MWWYD) skew information,
(7) |
which is the non-Hermitian extension of the WWYD skew information. It reduces to Eq. (3) when .
Quantum channels characterize the general evolutions of quantum systems [29, 28], which play an essential role in quantum information processing. The uncertainty relations for quantum channels have been investigated from both the variance-based and entropic-based uncertainty measure [30, 31]. Specifically, the unitary channels are useful and commonly encountered in both quantum information theory and quantum computation [28]. Uncertainty relations for general unitary channels have been investigated both theoretically and experimentally [32, 33, 34]. Recently, the sum uncertainty relations for quantum channels have attracted considerable attention [35, 36, 37, 38, 27]. Fu, Sun and Luo [35] investigated the uncertainty relations for two quantum channels based on WY skew information for arbitrary operators. Afterwards, Zhang, Gao and Yan [36] generalized the uncertainty relations for two quantum channels to arbitrary quantum channels and proposed tighter lower bounds than the ones in [35] for two quantum channels. Zhang, Wu and Fei [37] proposed new bounds which are tighter than the results in [36]. Cai [38] confirmed that the results in [35] also hold for all metric-adjusted skew information. By employing the norm inequalities proposed in [37], we have established sum uncertainty relations for arbitrary quantum channels based on () MWWYD skew information [27] .
Following the idea in [39], the MWWYD skew information of a state with respect to a channel has been defined as [27],
(8) |
where , and are Kraus operators of the channel , i.e., . Very recently, we provided the following uncertainty relations for arbitrary quantum channels with () [27],
(9) |
(10) |
(11) |
where , is the -element permutation group and are arbitrary -element permutations.
The remainder of this paper is structured as follows. In Section 2,
we explore the MWWYD skew information-based
sum uncertainty relations for arbitrary quantum channels.
Especially, we show that when , i.e., when the
MWWYD skew information becomes the
MWWYD skew information, our new bounds are tighter
than the existing ones by a detailed example. The uncertainty
relations based on the MWWYD skew
information for unitary channels are discussed in Section 3. We
conclude with a summary in Section 4.
2. Sum uncertainty relations for arbitrary quantum channels in
terms of () MWWYD skew information
In this section, by using a new formation we explore the uncertainty relations for arbitrary quantum channels
in terms of the () MWWYD skew information .
Let be a quantum channel with Kraus representation, . Following the idea in [37], we define the () MWWYD skew information of the channel as,
(12) |
where , , ,
characterizes some intrinsic features of both the quantum state and
the quantum channel. By employing operator norm inequalities and Eq. (12), we have the following theorem for arbitrary quantum channels.
Theorem 1 Let be quantum
channels with Kraus representations
(). We have
(13) |
where
(14) |
(15) |
(16) |
, , , is the n-element permutation group and are arbitrary -element permutations.
Proof The proof is completed directly by using the following inequalities [40, 36, 37],
with , and .
Note that when , Theorem 1 reduce to
Theorem 1 in [37].
As a special case, we use the MWWYD skew
information to compare our lower bounds with the existing ones. For
convenience, we denote by , ,
the right hand sides of (Tighter uncertainty relations based on modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew
information of quantum channels), (Tighter uncertainty relations based on modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew
information of quantum channels)
and (Tighter uncertainty relations based on modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew
information of quantum channels), respectively. The following example shows that our results give tighter lower
bounds than , and , see Figure 1.
Example 1 Given a qubit state
, where is the identity matrix, ,
with the Pauli matrices, and
. We consider the following three quantum channels:
(i) the amplitude damping channel ,
(ii) the phase damping channel ,
(iii) the bit flip channel ,
with , respectively.
For the case , and , we have . The lower bounds , and are 0.275596, 0.2644 and 0.256419, respectively, and the lower bounds , and are 0.260707, 0.26726 and 0.265758, respectively. Obviously, is tightest among , and , which is also greater than and given in [27].
We also consider the case . For and , the sum and the lower bounds , , , , and are shown in Figure 1, respectively. Especially, for , the sum and the lower bounds are calculated for some special , as listed in Table 1. It can be seen that for , our lower bounds and are tighter than , and . While for , our lower bounds and are tighter than , and .


Table 1. Comparison among the uncertainty lower bounds q=0.4 sum 0.234918 0.247658 0.241686 0.222065 0.252565 0.252654 0.258817 0.17968 0.204421 0.20082 0.168362 0.208841 0.208534 0.211782 0.0954994 0.13303 0.132687 0.0879256 0.135648 0.135459 0.135679 0.066361 0.104405 0.104922 0.0632504 0.106043 0.106062 0.106096
The above results show that Theorem 1 in this paper improve the existing
results ones given in [27].
3. Sum uncertainty relations for unitary channels
in terms of () MWWYD skew information
In this section, we consider sum uncertainty relations for arbitrary
unitary channels. For a unitary channel , we have
. According to Eq. (Tighter uncertainty relations based on modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew
information of quantum channels), the () MWWYD
skew information of an unitary operator is given by
(17) |
The () MWWYD skew information of a unitary
channel is defined as
.
For simplicity, in the following, we use
to denote the quantity
of the unitary channel determined by .
Similar to the proof of Theorem 1, we can prove the following theorem.
Theorem 2 Let be arbitrary unitary
operators. Then we have
(18) |
where
(19) |
(20) |
(21) |
and , .
Note that (19), (20) and (Tighter uncertainty relations based on modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew
information of quantum channels) of Theorem 2
reduce to (13), (Tighter uncertainty relations based on modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew
information of quantum channels) and (Tighter uncertainty relations based on modified weighted Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew
information of quantum channels) in [37]
when , respectively.
Example 2 Given a qubit state with
.
Consider the following three unitary operators,
which correspond to the rotations around the axis of the Bloch sphere. When , i.e., when the MWWYD skew information reduces to the MWWYD skew information, the comparison among the lower bounds of Theorem 2 is presented in Figure 2, from which one sees that the lower bound is tighter than and in this case.

4. Conclusions
We have studied the sum uncertainty relations for quantum channels
based on the MWWYD skew information. By detailed example
it has been shown that our uncertainty inequalities are tighter than the existing ones.
Since the MWWYD skew information and () MWWYD skew information
are two special cases of the MWWYD skew
information, our results are also valid for the MWWYD skew information and the
() MWWYD skew information.
Finally, we have also explored sum uncertainty relations for unitary
channels. These results may shed some new light on the
study of skew information-based sum uncertainty relations for quantum channels.
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12161056, 12075159, 12171044); Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 20202BAB201001); Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. Z190005); Academy for Multidisciplinary Studies, Capital Normal University; Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (Grant No. SIQSE202001); the Academician Innovation Platform of Hainan Province.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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