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Quantum complexity is emerging as a key property of many-body systems, including black holes, topological materials, and early quantum computers. A state's complexity quantifies the number of computational gates required to prepare the…

Microcanonical thermodynamics studies the operations that can be performed on systems with well-defined energy. So far, this approach has been applied to classical and quantum systems. Here we extend it to arbitrary physical theories,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-16 Giulio Chiribella , Carlo Maria Scandolo

Quantum information processing relies on a variety of resources, including entanglement, coherence, non-Gaussianity, and magic. In realistic settings, protocols run on networks of parties with heterogeneous local resource constraints, so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Ray Ganardi , Jeongrak Son , Jakub Czartowski , Seok Hyung Lie , Nelly H. Y. Ng

Many resource theories share an interesting property: An operation is free if and only if its renormalized Choi matrix is a free state. In this article, we refer to resource theories exhibiting this property as Choi-defined resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Elia Zanoni , Carlo Maria Scandolo

Quantum coherence is one of the most important resources in quantum information. Indeed, preventing the loss of coherence is one of the most important technical challenges obstructing the development of large-scale quantum computers.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 John H. Selby , Ciarán M. Lee

Conventional statistical mechanics describes large systems and averages over many particles or over many trials. But work, heat, and entropy impact the small scales that experimentalists can increasingly control, e.g., in single-molecule…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Nicole Yunger Halpern

The difficulty in manipulating quantum resources deterministically often necessitates the use of probabilistic protocols, but the characterization of their capabilities and limitations has been lacking. We develop a general approach to this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Bartosz Regula

Thermodynamics, which describes vast systems, has been reconciled with small scales, relevant to single-molecule experiments, in resource theories. Resource theories have been used to model exchanges of energy and information. Recently,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Nicole Yunger Halpern

The field of quantum resource theory (QRT) has emerged as an invaluable framework for the examination of small and strongly correlated quantum systems, surpassing the boundaries imposed by traditional statistical treatments. The fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Gökhan Torun , Onur Pusuluk , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

One of the main goals of any resource theory such as entanglement, quantum thermodynamics, quantum coherence, and asymmetry, is to find necessary and sufficient conditions (NSC) that determine whether one resource can be converted to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Gilad Gour

The "thermal operations" framework developed in past works is used to model the evolution of microscopic quantum systems in contact with thermal baths. Here we extend this model to bipartite devices with one part acting as a control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-13 Varun Narasimhachar , Gilad Gour

Quantum resources are certain features of the quantum world that provide advantages in certain information-theoretic, thermodynamic, or any other useful operational tasks that are outside the realm of what classical theories can achieve.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Jatin Ghai , Arindam Mitra

We initiate the systematic study of resource theories of quantum channels, i.e. of the dynamics that quantum systems undergo by completely positive maps, in abstracto: Resources are in principle all maps from one quantum system to another,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Zi-Wen Liu , Andreas Winter

Catalysts are substances that assist transformation of other resourceful objects without being consumed in the process. However, the fact that their `catalytic power' is limited and can be depleted is often overlooked, especially in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-02 Seok Hyung Lie , Hyunsek Jeong

Thermodynamics has recently been extended to small scales with resource theories that model heat exchanges. Real physical systems exchange diverse quantities: heat, particles, angular momentum, etc. We generalize thermodynamic resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Nicole Yunger Halpern , Joseph M. Renes

We develop a unified framework to characterize one-shot transformations of dynamical quantum resources in terms of resource quantifiers, establishing universal conditions for exact and approximate transformations in general resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Bartosz Regula , Ryuji Takagi

The resource theory of imaginarity studies the operational value of imaginary parts in quantum states, operations, and measurements. Here we introduce and study the distillation and conversion of imaginarity in distributed scenario. This…

Quantum instruments describe both the classical output and the updated quantum state in a measurement process. To do this in a non-trivial way, instruments must have the capability to interact coherently with the state that they measure.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Chung-Yun Hsieh , Armin Tavakoli , Huan-Yu Ku , Paul Skrzypczyk

Quantum theory makes the most accurate empirical predictions and yet it lacks simple, comprehensible physical principles from which the theory can be uniquely derived. A broad class of probabilistic theories exist which all share some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 Borivoje Dakic , Caslav Brukner

With the advent of device independent quantum information processing, nonlocality is nowadays regarded as a resource to implement various tasks. On the analogy of entanglement theory we approach nonlocality from this perspective. In order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-10 Julio I. de Vicente