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Quantum coherence fraction

Quantum Physics 2019-09-25 v1

Abstract

As an analogy of fully entangled fraction in the framework of entanglement theory, we have introduced the notion of quantum coherence fraction CFC_{\mathcal{F}}, which quantifies the closeness between a given state and the set of maximally coherent states. By providing an alternative formulation of the robustness of coherence CRC_{\mathcal{R}}, we have elucidated the relationship between quantum coherence fraction and the normalized version of CRC_{\mathcal{R}} (i.e., CR\overline{C}_{\mathcal{R}}), where the role of genuinely incoherent operations (GIO) is highlighted. Numerical simulation shows that though as expected CFC_{\mathcal{F}} is upper bounded by CR\overline{C}_{\mathcal{R}}, CFC_{\mathcal{F}} constitutes a good approximation to CR\overline{C}_{\mathcal{R}} especially in low-dimensional Hilbert spaces. Even more intriguingly, we can analytically prove that CFC_{\mathcal{F}} is exactly equivalent to CR\overline{C}_{\mathcal{R}} for qubit and qutrit states. Moreover, some intuitive properties and implications of CFC_{\mathcal{F}} are also indicated.

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@article{arxiv.1906.09789,
  title  = {Quantum coherence fraction},
  author = {Yao Yao and Dong Li and C. P. Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.09789},
  year   = {2019}
}

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9pages, 3 figures. Comments are welcome

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