Measure of set imaginarity
arXiv:2608.28985 · doi:10.1103/1yc6-lzfk
Abstract
Recent studies have shown that Bargmann invariants provide effective detectors of set imaginarity. In this paper, we investigate set imaginarity as a quantum resource in qubit systems. By exploiting the structure of Bargmann invariants, we show that the free operations for qubit set imaginarity consist precisely of common unital operations and common planarized operations. Based on this characterization, we introduce an axiomatic framework for set-imaginarity measures (SIMs). In particular, we propose two refined notions, namely unified SIMs and complete SIMs, which allow a more fine-grained quantification of set imaginarity. To make these notions concrete, we construct two qubit SIMs from the Bargmann invariants of three-state subsets. We prove that one of them is a unified SIM, while the other satisfies the stronger requirements of a complete SIM. Furthermore, we revisit the robustness of set imaginarity previously introduced in the literature. We show that, although this robustness is a valid SIM for qubit systems, it is neither a unified SIM nor a complete SIM. To overcome this limitation, we propose an improved robustness-type measure and rigorously prove that it defines a complete qubit SIM.
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