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A quantitative theory of coherent delocalization

Quantum Physics 2014-03-07 v2

Abstract

We define a quantitative measure of coherent delocalization; similarly to the concept of entanglement measures, we require that a measure of coherent delocalization may never increase under processes that do not create coherent superpositions. After a complete characterization of such processes, we prove that a set of recently introduced functions that characterize coherent delocalization never grow under such processes and thus are indeed valid measures.

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@article{arxiv.1310.6962,
  title  = {A quantitative theory of coherent delocalization},
  author = {Federico Levi and Florian Mintert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6962},
  year   = {2014}
}
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