A General Theory of Multi-Resource Theories Involving Finite-Group Asymmetry
Abstract
Resource theories provide a universal framework for quantifying properties of quantum states, such as entanglement, magic, athermality, and asymmetry, as resources under various constraints encountered in quantum science. Since realistic settings typically impose several constraints at once, it is important to study multi-resource theories that combine them. Among these, combinations with asymmetry are especially natural, as symmetry is fundamental and ubiquitous in physics. Here we develop a general theory that treats combinations of finite-group asymmetry with a broad range of resource theories in a unified manner. Our key observation is that the effect of combining the two constraints is governed by the accessibility of symmetry information under the underlying resource theory: whether the information needed for the conversion can be extracted from the input and used to control free operations. If this can be done with asymptotically vanishing error, we show that the conversion rate of the combined theory equals the smaller of the rates of the two constituent theories, so combining them incurs no additional cost. This condition holds for LOCC on arbitrary mixed multipartite states, magic-state conversion of multiqubit systems under Clifford symmetries, and Gibbs-preserving operations. Thermal operations, being time-translation covariant, can access only limited symmetry information, giving an additional compatibility condition between the two symmetries. We also analyze symmetry imposed on elementary operations rather than only on the resulting channel. We establish analogous results for LOCC and thermal operations under suitable assumptions, and for magic when the symmetry is represented by Pauli operators. Finally, we show that finite-group symmetry does not reduce the asymptotic ergotropy per copy and hence introduces no new completely passive states.
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BibTeX
@misc{mitsuhashi2026general,
title = {{A General Theory of Multi-Resource Theories Involving Finite-Group Asymmetry}},
author = {Yosuke Mitsuhashi and Hiroyasu Tajima},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.40255},
eprint = {2609.40255},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40255},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A General Theory of Multi-Resource Theories Involving Finite-Group Asymmetry
AU - Yosuke Mitsuhashi
AU - Hiroyasu Tajima
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/30
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.40255
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40255
AB - Resource theories provide a universal framework for quantifying properties of quantum states, such as entanglement, magic, athermality, and asymmetry, as resources under various constraints encountered in quantum science. Since realistic settings typically impose several constraints at once, it is important to study multi-resource theories that combine them. Among these, combinations with asymmetry are especially natural, as symmetry is fundamental and ubiquitous in physics. Here we develop a general theory that treats combinations of finite-group asymmetry with a broad range of resource theories in a unified manner. Our key observation is that the effect of combining the two constraints is governed by the accessibility of symmetry information under the underlying resource theory: whether the information needed for the conversion can be extracted from the input and used to control free operations. If this can be done with asymptotically vanishing error, we show that the conversion rate of the combined theory equals the smaller of the rates of the two constituent theories, so combining them incurs no additional cost. This condition holds for LOCC on arbitrary mixed multipartite states, magic-state conversion of multiqubit systems under Clifford symmetries, and Gibbs-preserving operations. Thermal operations, being time-translation covariant, can access only limited symmetry information, giving an additional compatibility condition between the two symmetries. We also analyze symmetry imposed on elementary operations rather than only on the resulting channel. We establish analogous results for LOCC and thermal operations under suitable assumptions, and for magic when the symmetry is represented by Pauli operators. Finally, we show that finite-group symmetry does not reduce the asymptotic ergotropy per copy and hence introduces no new completely passive states.
ER -