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Generalized Coherence Concurrence and Path distinguishability

Quantum Physics 2017-11-03 v4 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

We propose a new family of coherence monotones, named the \emph{generalized coherence concurrence} (or coherence kk-concurrence), which is an analogous concept to the generalized entanglement concurrence. The coherence kk-concurrence of a state is nonzero if and only if the coherence number (a recently introduced discrete coherence monotone) of the state is not smaller than kk, and a state can be converted to a state with nonzero entanglement kk-concurrence via incoherent operations if and only if the state has nonzero coherence kk-concurrence. We apply the coherence concurrence family to the problem of wave-particle duality in multi-path interference phenomena. We obtain a sharper equation for path distinguishability (which witness the duality) than the known value and show that the amount of each concurrence for the quanton state determines the number of slits which are identified unambiguously.

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@article{arxiv.1702.06061,
  title  = {Generalized Coherence Concurrence and Path distinguishability},
  author = {Seungbeom Chin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.06061},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

9 pages, Revtex 4.1; (v3) new analysis on the application of generalized coherence concurrence to multi-path interference problems, former title "Generalized Coherence Concurrence and Coherence Number", (v4) minor error corrections

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