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Wave-particle duality relations based on entropic bounds for which-way information

Quantum Physics 2020-09-02 v1

Abstract

We present wave-particle duality relations involving the relative entropy coherence measure, which plays a prominent role in the resource theory of coherence. The main input in these relations is an entropic bound for the which-way information, which we derive in this letter. We show that this latter crucially depends on the choice of the measurement strategy to obtain the path information. In particular, we present results for two strategies: zero-error identification of the path-detector states, which never produces an error but sometimes fails to return a conclusive answer, and a mixed strategy where both errors and failure are allowed.

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@article{arxiv.2004.13573,
  title  = {Wave-particle duality relations based on entropic bounds for which-way information},
  author = {Emilio Bagan and Janos A. Bergou and Mark Hillery},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13573},
  year   = {2020}
}
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