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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…

Quantum discord and quantum entanglement are resources in some quantum information processing (QIP) models. However, in recent years, the evidence that separable states or classically correlated states can also accomplish QIP is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-17 Shenghang Li , Yi-Xin Chen

Quantum coherence, as a direct manifestation of the quantum superposition principle, is a crucial resource in quantum information processing. Block coherence resource theory generalizes the traditional coherence framework by defining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiangyu Chen , Qiang Lei

Quantum coherence, the ability to control the phases in superposition states is a resource, and it is of crucial importance, therefore, to understand how it is consumed in use. It has been suggested that catalytic coherence is possible,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Joan A. Vaccaro , Sarah Croke , Stephen M. Barnett

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

We demonstrate that quantum Fisher information and superradiance can be formulated as coherence measures in accordance with the resource theory of coherence, thus establishing a direct link between metrological information, superradiance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Kok Chuan Tan , Seongjeon Choi , Hyukjoon Kwon , Hyunseok Jeong

The superposition principle lies at the heart of many non-classical properties of quantum mechanics. Motivated by this, we introduce a rigorous resource theory framework for the quantification of superposition of a finite number of linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 T. Theurer , N. Killoran , D. Egloff , M. B. Plenio

Coherence is a defining property of quantum theory that accounts for quantum advantage in many quantum information tasks. Although many coherence quantifiers have been introduced in various contexts, the lack of efficient methods to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Sun Liang Liang , Yu Sixia

Despite being one of the hallmarks of quantum physics, there is a lack of operational interpretations of quantum coherence. Here we provide an operational interpretation of coherence of a quantum system, in terms of the amount of noise that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-10 Uttam Singh , Manabendra Nath Bera , Avijit Misra , Arun Kumar Pati

We find necessary and sufficient conditions to determine the inter-convertibility of quantum systems under time-translation covariant evolution, and use it to solve several problems in quantum thermodynamics both in the single-shot and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Gilad Gour

Quantum coherence is a basic feature of quantum physics. Combined with tensor product structure of state space, it gives rise to the novel concepts such as entanglement and quantum correlations, which play a crucial role in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Kaifeng Bu , Asutosh Kumar , Lin Zhang , Junde Wu

Coherence is a basic notion for quantum states. Instead of quantum states, in this work, We establish a resource theory for quantifying the coherence of Gaussian channels. To do this, we propose the definitions of incoherent Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Jianwei Xu

Quantum coherence was recently formalized as a physical resource to measure the strength of superposition. Based on the resource theory, we present a systematic framework that connects a coherence measure to the security of quantum key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Jiajun Ma , You Zhou , Xiao Yuan , Xiongfeng Ma

Quantum coherence, incompatibility, and quantum correlations are fundamental features of quantum physics. A unified view of those features is crucial for revealing quantitatively their intrinsic connections. We define the relative quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 Ming-Liang Hu , Heng Fan

The Page-Wootters mechanism questioned the fundamental nature of time in quantum physics. The mechanism explored the notion that a given physical quantity is always defined and measured relative to a reference frame, in general, not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Tiago Martinelli , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto

In this paper, we detail an orthogonalization procedure that allows for the quantification of the amount of coherence present an arbitrary superposition of coherent states. The present construction is based on the quantum coherence resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Kok Chuan Tan , Tyler Volkoff , Hyukjoon Kwon , Hyunseok Jeong

Quantum mechanics allows coherent superposition between different states of matter. This quality is responsible for major non-classical phenomena that occur in quantum systems. Beyond states, coherent superpositions are also possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Manabendra Nath Bera

Quantum resource theories allow us to quantify a useful quantum phenomenon, to develop new protocols for its detection and determine the exact processes that maximize its use for practical tasks. These theories aim at transforming physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Abdallah Slaoui

From an operational perspective, quantumness characterizes the exotic behavior in a physical process which cannot be explained with Newtonian physics. There are several widely used measures of quantumness, including coherence, discord, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Xiao Yuan , Hongyi Zhou , Mile Gu , Xiongfeng Ma

In the quantitative theory of quantum coherence, the amount of coherence for given states can be meaningfully discussed only when referring to a preferred basis. One of the objections to this quantification is that the amount of coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Zhi-Xiang Jin , Yuan-Hong Tao , Bing Yu , Shao-Ming Fei