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closeness between two unitaries on the bloch sphere

A unitary $U$ corresponds to a rotation on the Bloch sphere. Technically, there is a smooth map from $2 \times 2$ unitaries with determinant 1 (which form the group SU(2)) to $3\times 3$ rotation ...
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closeness between two unitaries on the bloch sphere

There are several ways to quantify the closeness of unitary operators. The best approach will be heavily dependent on context. The approach you laid out is close to an operator norm, which would look ...
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Map $n$ qubit state with complex amplitudes to $n+1$ qubit state with real amplitudes

TL;DR: The proposed map fails to be insensitive to the global phase. For example, it can tell apart $|0\rangle\equiv[1,0]^T$ from $|0\rangle\equiv[i,0]^T$ even though these two different mathematical ...
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Map $n$ qubit state with complex amplitudes to $n+1$ qubit state with real amplitudes

Call the operation you want to construct $D$ and call the qubit that ends up storing the real/imaginary distinction $q$. If I gave you $D$, you could apply $D$ then $Z_q$ then $D^{-1}$. The overall ...
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Map $n$ qubit state with complex amplitudes to $n+1$ qubit state with real amplitudes

This will violate unitarity of the transformation $U$. Consider states $$\begin{bmatrix}\frac1{\sqrt2} \\ \frac1{\sqrt2}\end{bmatrix} (b=d=0)$$ and $$\begin{bmatrix}i\frac1{\sqrt2} \\ i\frac1{\sqrt2}\...
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Sufficient conditions for a single-qubit unitary to be the identity

Another way of phrasing it is "if $U$ maps every computational basis state to itself, such that all the computational basis states have the same global phase, then $U$ is identity, up to a global ...
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Sufficient conditions for a single-qubit unitary to be the identity

TL;DR: The premise - that $U$ which fixes elements of every basis may fail to be the identity - is false. If a unitary $U$ fixes elements of every basis then in particular it fixes every vector and $U=...
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Conditions for entangling $A$ with $C$ via an interaction on $AB$

This is not a fully characterised solution, but perhaps you will find it helpful... We start by writing the initial $|\psi\rangle$ in its Schmidt basis, $$ |\psi\rangle=\alpha|00\rangle+\beta|11\...
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Conditions for entangling $A$ with $C$ via an interaction on $AB$

This isn't a full solution. More a way to reduce the problem in a more general one, and possibly pinpoint the difficult question that needs answering. Let's assume $\rho_A$ is pure, $\rho_A\equiv |\...
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What are the possible channels preserving purity of all pure input states?

TL;DR: The unitary and reset channels are the only ones that return pure output for every pure input. That's because under Stinespring dilation the requirement that $\Phi$ return pure output for every ...
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Unitarity of a matrix in the EPR experiment

The key thing is that the two eigenvectors of $\vec{v}\cdot\vec{\sigma}$ are orthogonal. So if you create a matrix such as $$ U=|a\rangle\langle 0|+|b\rangle\langle 1|, $$ (this is technically the ...
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