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Quantum coherence inherently affects the dynamics and the performances of a quantum machine. Coherent control can, at least in principle, enhance the work extraction and boost the velocity of evolution in an open quantum system. Using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Vasco Cavina , Andrea Mari , Alberto Carlini , Vittorio Giovannetti

Entanglement within a given device provides a potential resource for quantum information processing. Entanglement between system and environment leads to decoherence (thus suppressing non-classical features within the system) but also opens…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guenter Mahler , Jochen Gemmer , Mathias Michel

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

The resource theory of coherence addresses the extent to which quantum properties are present in a given quantum system. While coherence has been extensively studied for individual quantum states, measures of coherence for ensembles of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Aleksei Kodukhov

Quantifying quantum coherence is a key task in the resource theory of coherence. Here we establish a good coherence monotone in terms of a state conversion process, which automatically endows the coherence monotone with an operational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Deng-hui Yu , Li-qiang Zhang , Chang-shui Yu

That superpositions of states can be useful for performing tasks in quantum systems has been known since the early days of quantum information, but only recently has quantitative theory of quantum coherence been proposed. Here we apply that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Mark Hillery

Feedback is the core concept in cybernetics and its effective use has made great success in but not limited to the fields of engineering, biology, and computer science. When feedback is used to quantum systems, two major types of feedback…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 Bo Qi , Daoyi Dong , Chunlin Chen , Lijun Liu , Zairong Xi

Numerous lines of experimental, numerical and analytical evidence indicate that it is surprisingly easy to locate optimal controls steering quantum dynamical systems to desired objectives. This has enabled the control of complex quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Raj Chakrabarti , Herschel Rabitz

Understanding the resource consumption in distributed scenarios is one of the main goals of quantum information theory. A prominent example for such a scenario is the task of quantum state merging where two parties aim to merge their parts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 A. Streltsov , E. Chitambar , S. Rana , M. N. Bera , A. Winter , M. Lewenstein

The subject of quantum computing brings together ideas from classical information theory, computer science, and quantum physics. This review aims to summarise not just quantum computing, but the whole subject of quantum information theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Andrew Steane

The concept of quantum coherence and its possible use as a resource are currently the subject of active researches. Uncertainty and complementarity relations for quantum coherence allow one to study its changes with respect to other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Alexey E. Rastegin

In this work (multipartite) entanglement, discord and coherence are unified as different aspects of a single underlying resource theory defined through simple and operationally meaningful elemental operations. This is achieved by revisiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dario Egloff , Juan Mauricio Matera , Thomas Theurer , Martin Bodo Plenio

A common objective for quantum control is to force a quantum system, initially in an unknown state, into a particular target subspace. We show that if the subspace is required to be a decoherence-free subspace of dimension greater than 1,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 D. Kielpinski , R. A. Briggs , H. M. Wiseman

Resource theories play a crucial role in characterizing states and properties essential for quantum information processing. A significant challenge is protecting resources from errors. We explore strategies for correcting quantum resources.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Mark Byrd , Daniel Dilley , Alvin Gonzales , Masaya Takahashi , Zain Saleem , Lian-Ao Wu

There are many striking phenomena which are attributed to ``quantum coherence''. It is natural to wonder if there are new quantum coherence effects waiting to be discovered which could lead to interesting results and perhaps even practical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Andreas Albrecht

Effective classicality of a property of a quantum system can be defined using redundancy of its record in the environment. This allows quantum physics to approximate the situation encountered in the classical world: The information about a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. H. Zurek

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

In this thesis, we consider two simple but typical control problems and apply deep reinforcement learning to them, i.e., to cool and control a particle which is subject to continuous position measurement in a one-dimensional quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Zhikang Wang

We introduce and discuss the problem of quantum feedback control in the context of established formulations of classical control theory, examining conceptual analogies and essential differences. We describe the application of state-observer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Andrew C. Doherty , Salman Habib , Kurt Jacobs , Hideo Mabuchi , Sze M. Tan

The coherent control of scattering processes is considered, with electron impact dissociation of H$_2^+$ used as an example. The physical mechanism underlying coherently controlled stationary state scattering is exposed by analyzing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Spanner , Paul Brumer