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We generalize the recently proposed resource theory of coherence (or superposition) [Baumgratz, Cramer & Plenio, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113:140401; Winter & Yang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116:120404] to the setting where not only the free ("incoherent")…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Khaled Ben Dana , María García Díaz , Mohamed Mejatty , Andreas Winter

Considerable work has recently been directed toward developing resource theories of quantum coherence. In most approaches, a state is said to possess quantum coherence if it is not diagonal in some specified basis. In this letter we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Eric Chitambar , Gilad Gour

The characterization and control of quantum effects in the performance of thermodynamic tasks may open new avenues for small thermal machines working in the nanoscale. We study the impact of coherence in the energy basis in the operation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Kenza Hammam , Yassine Hassouni , Rosario Fazio , Gonzalo Manzano

We investigate the connection between quantum resources and extractable work in quantum batteries. We demonstrate that quantum coherence in the battery or the battery-charger entanglement is a necessary resource for generating nonzero…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Hai-Long Shi , Shu Ding , Qing-Kun Wan , Xiao-Hui Wang , Wen-Li Yang

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…

The study shows that presence of the quantum coherent, unitary component of the evolution of the system can improve constancy of heat engines, i.e., decrease fluctuations of the output power, in comparison with purely stochastic setups.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Krzysztof Ptaszynski

Quantum coherence is an essential feature of quantum mechanics and is an important physical resource in quantum information. Recently, the resource theory of quantum coherence has been established parallel with that of entanglement. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Si-ren Yang , Chang-shui Yu

The question of whether quantum coherence is a resource beneficial or detrimental to the performance of quantum heat engines has been thoroughly studied but remains undecided. To isolate the contribution of coherence, we analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Stefan Aimet , Hyukjoon Kwon

We identify that quantum coherence is a valuable resource in the quantum heat engine, which is designed in a quantum thermodynamic cycle assisted by a quantum Maxwell's demon. This demon is in a superposed state. The quantum work and heat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Yun-Hao Shi , Hai-Long Shi , Xiao-Hui Wang , Ming-Liang Hu , Si-Yuan Liu , Wen-Li Yang , Heng Fan

Gibbs-preserving operations have been studied as one of the standard free processes in quantum thermodynamics. Although they admit a simple mathematical structure, their operational significance has been unclear due to the potential hidden…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Hiroyasu Tajima , Ryuji Takagi

Quantum batteries have recently emerged as promising candidates for microscopic energy-storage technologies exploiting uniquely quantum mechanical effects. In this work, we introduce the concept of a quantum capacitor, a quantum device…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Saeed Haddadi

Coherence is a familiar concept in physics: It is the driving force behind wavelike phenomena such as the diffraction of light. Moreover, wave-particle duality implies that all quantum objects can exhibit coherence, and this quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Brendon W. Lovett , Ahsan Nazir

In this paper, we investigate preservation of quantum coherence of a single-qubit interacting with a zero-temperature thermal reservoir through the addition of noninteracting qubits in the reservoir. Moreover, we extend this scheme to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Naghi Behzadi , Bahram Ahansaz , Esfandyar Faizi

Control at the interface between the classical and the quantum world is fundamental in quantum physics. In particular, how classical control is enhanced by coherence effects is an important question both from a theoretical as well as from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 J. M. Matera , D. Egloff , N. Killoran , M. B. Plenio

Any quantum resource theory is based on free states and free operations, i.e., states and operations which can be created and performed at no cost. In the resource theory of coherence free states are diagonal in some fixed basis, and free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 Julio I. de Vicente , Alexander Streltsov

Quantifying coherence is an essential endeavour for both quantum foundations and quantum technologies. Here the robustness of coherence is defined and proven a full monotone in the context of the recently introduced resource theories of…

We develop an exact theory of coherence-selective stroboscopic resetting for quadratic open quantum systems within the single-particle density-matrix formalism. We focus on the survival of coherences and the associated thermodynamic cost at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Jishad Kumar , Achilleas Lazarides , Tapio Ala-Nissila

In the framework of quantum thermodynamics preparing a quantum system in a general state requires the consumption of two distinct resources, namely, work and coherence. It has been shown that the work cost of preparing a quantum state is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Iman Marvian

Anomalous decoherence in the Jaynes-Cummings model emerges for a certain class of bosonic reservoirs, described by spectral densities with a band edge frequency coinciding with the qubit transition frequency. The special reservoirs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-07 Filippo Giraldi , Francesco Petruccione

One of the principal objectives of quantum thermodynamics is to explore quantum effects and their potential beneficial role in thermodynamic tasks like work extraction or refrigeration. So far, even though several papers have already shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 C. L. Latune , I. Sinayskiy , F. Petruccione