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Quantum entanglement and coherence are two fundamental resources for quantum information processing. Recent results clearly demonstrate their relevance in quantum technological tasks, including quantum communication and quantum algorithms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-16 Anurag Anshu , Rahul Jain , Alexander Streltsov

We compare quantum decoherence in generic regular and chaotic systems that interact with a thermal reservoir via a dipole coupling. Using a time-dependent, self-consistent approximation in the spirit of Hartree, we derive in the high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Allan Tameshtit , J. E. Sipe

The interplay between quantum-mechanical properties, such as coherence, and classical notions, such as energy, is a subtle topic at the forefront of quantum thermodynamics. The traditional Carnot argument limits the conversion of heat to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Kamil Korzekwa , Matteo Lostaglio , Jonathan Oppenheim , David Jennings

The coherence transformation is pivotal for quantum technologies, which cannot always be accomplished deterministically. We investigate the probabilistic coherence transformation under strictly incoherent operations. To this end, by virtue…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Ao-Xiang Liu , Cong-Feng Qiao

Quantum coherence is a fundamental property of quantum systems, separating quantum from classical physics. Recently, there has been significant interest in the characterization of quantum coherence as a resource, investigating how coherence…

We study the modification of the second law of thermodynamics for a quantum system interacting with a reservoir regarding quantum coherence. The whole system is isolated so that neither energy nor information is lost. It is discovered that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Yu-Han Ma , C. L. Liu , C. P. Sun

We provide a reformulation of finite dimensional quantum theory in the circuit framework in terms of mathematical axioms, and a reconstruction of quantum theory from operational postulates. The mathematical axioms for quantum theory are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-26 Lucien Hardy

The unitary generation of coherence from an incoherent thermal state is investigated. We consider a completely controllable Hamiltonian allowing to generate all possible unitary transformations. Optimizing the unitary control to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Shimshon Kallush , Aviv Aroch , Ronnie Kosloff

Since the dawn of quantum theory, coherence was attributed as a key to understand the weirdness of fundamental concepts like the wave-particle duality and the Stern-Gerlach experiment. Recently, based on a resource theory approach, the…

We consider a general resource theory that allows the use of free resource as a catalyst. We show that the amount of `resource' contained in a given state, in the asymptotic scenario, is equal to the regularized relative entropy of resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Anurag Anshu , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Rahul Jain

We develop a rigorous framework for quantifying quantum coherence in finite-dimensional systems by applying the Schur-Horn majorization theorem to relate eigenvalue distributions and diagonal entries of density matrices. Building on this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Tariq Aziz , Meng-Long Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

A fundamental task in any physical theory is to quantify certain physical quantity in a meaningful way. In this paper we show that both fidelity distance and affinity distance satisfy the strong contractibility, and the corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Chunhe Xiong , Asutosh Kumar , Minyi Huang , Sreetama Das , Ujjwal Sen , Junde Wu

Coherence and entanglement are the two most crucial resources for various quantum information processing tasks. Here, we study the interplay of coherence and entanglement under the action of different three qubit quantum cloning operations.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-17 Suchetana Goswami , Satyabrata Adhikari , A. S. Majumdar

Entanglement and coherence are fundamental properties of quantum systems, promising to power near future quantum technologies, such as quantum computation, quantum communication and quantum metrology. Yet, their quantification, rather than…

Quantum thermodynamics allows for the interconversion of quantum coherence and mechanical work. Quantum coherence is thus a potential physical resource for quantum machines. However, formulating a general nonequilibrium thermodynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Franklin L. S. Rodrigues , Eric Lutz

In thermodynamics, quantum coherences - superpositions between energy eigenstates - behave in distinctly nonclassical ways. Recently mathematical frameworks have emerged to account for these features and have provided a range of novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Hyukjoon Kwon , Hyunseok Jeong , David Jennings , Benjamin Yadin , M. S. Kim

Coherence, a strictly quantum phenomenon, has found many applications, from quantum information theory and thermodynamics to quantum foundations and biology. When physical constraints are taken into consideration creation of coherence in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Nikolaos K. Kollas , Kostas Blekos

Standard treatments of quantum work using projective energy measurements erase initial coherence and alter the dynamics, thereby failing to capture the thermodynamic effects of coherent superpositions of energy eigenstates in an ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Pranay Nayak , Sreenath K. Manikandan , Tan Van Vu , Supriya Krishnamurthy

The ability to live in coherent superpositions is a signature trait of quantum systems and constitutes an irreplaceable resource for quantum-enhanced technologies. However, decoherence effects usually destroy quantum superpositions. It has…

Quantum coherence is the outcome of the superposition principle. Recently, it has been theorized as a quantum resource, and is the premise of quantum correlations in multipartite systems. It is therefore interesting to study the coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Asutosh Kumar