Recovery Map for Fermionic Gaussian Channels

Understand

A recovery map effectively cancels the action of a quantum operation to a partial or full extent.

• We study the Petz recovery map in the case where the quantum channel and input states are fermionic and Gaussian.
• Gaussian states are convenient because they are totally determined by their covariance matrix and because they form a closed set under so-called Gaussian channels.
• Using a Grassmann representation of fermionic Gaussian maps, we show that the Petz recovery map is also Gaussian and determine it explicitly in terms of the covariance matrix of the reference state and the data of the channel.