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The concept of coherence is one of cornerstones in physics. The development of quantum information science has lead to renewed interest in properly approaching the coherence at the quantum level. Various measures could be proposed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Alexey E. Rastegin

Quantum coherence is one of the fundamental properties of quantum mechanics and also acts as a valuable resource for a variety of practical applications, which includes quantum computing and quantum information processing. Evaluating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Yikang Zhu , Zhaofeng Su

Quantum coherence constitutes a foundational characteristic of quantum mechanics and is integral to emerging quantum resource theories. However, quantum coherence is severely restricted by environmental noise in general quantum processing,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Qing-Hua Zhang , Shao-Ming Fei

We establish a rigorous connection between quantum coherence and quantum chaos by employing coherence measures originating from the resource theory framework as a diagnostic tool for quantum chaos. We quantify this connection at two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Namit Anand , Georgios Styliaris , Meenu Kumari , Paolo Zanardi

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 resource theory of coherence studies the operational value of superpositions in quantum technologies. A key question in this theory concerns the efficiency of manipulation and interconversion of this resource. Here we solve this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Thomas Theurer , Alexander Streltsov , Martin B. Plenio

Quantum coherence constitutes a fundamental physical mechanism essential to the study of quantum algorithms. We study the coherence and decoherence in generalized Shor's algorithm where the register $A$ is initialized in arbitrary pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Linlin Ye , Zhaoqi Wu , Nanrun Zhou

Grover search is a well-known quantum algorithm that outperforms any classical search algorithm. It is known that quantum correlations such as entanglement are necessary for the power of quantum computation. But entanglement is not the only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-05 Jian Cui , Heng Fan

Coherence and entanglement are fundamental concepts in resource theory. The coherence (entanglement) of assistance is the coherence (entanglement) that can be extracted assisted by another party with local measurement and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Ming-Jing Zhao , Rajesh Pereira , Teng Ma , Shao-Ming Fei

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 introduce a measure of coherence, which is extended from the coherence rank via the standard convex roof construction, we call it the logarithmic coherence number. This approach is parallel to the Schmidt measure in entanglement theory,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Zhengjun Xi , Shanshan Yuwen

Based on the theory of quantum mechanics, intrinsic randomness in measurement distinguishes quantum effects from classical ones. From the perspective of states, this quantum feature can be summarized as coherence or superposition in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-03 Xiao Yuan , Hongyi Zhou , Zhu Cao , Xiongfeng Ma

Quantum coherence is an essential resource for quantum information processing and various quantitative measures of it have been introduced. However, the interconnections between these measures are not yet understood properly. Here, using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Sandeep Mishra , Kishore Thapliyal , Anirban Pathak , Anu Venugopalan

Shor's factoring algorithm provides a super-polynomial speed-up over all known classical factoring algorithms. Here, we address the question of which quantum properties fuel this advantage. We investigate a sequential variant of Shor's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Felix Ahnefeld , Thomas Theurer , Dario Egloff , Juan Mauricio Matera , Martin B. Plenio

We introduce a rigorous framework for the quantification of coherence and identify intuitive and easily computable measures of coherence. We achieve this by adopting the viewpoint of coherence as a physical resource. By determining defining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 T. Baumgratz , M. Cramer , M. B. Plenio

A new approach to the classical limit of Grover's algorithm is discussed by assuming a very rapid dephasing of a system between consecutive Grover's unitary operations, which drives pure quantum states to decohered mixed states. One can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Kazuo Fujikawa , C. H. Oh , Koichiro Umetsu

The ability of quantum states to be in superposition is one of the key features that sets them apart from the classical world. This `coherence' is rigorously quantified by resource theories, which aim to understand how such properties may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Ruvi Lecamwasam , Syed M Assad , Joseph J Hope , Ping Koy Lam , Jayne Thompson , Mile Gu

In this work we investigate how to quantify the coherence of quantum measurements. First, we establish a resource theoretical framework to address the coherence of measurement and show that any statistical distance can be adopted to define…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Kyunghyun Baek , Adel Sohbi , Jaehak Lee , Jaewan Kim , Hyunchul Nha

To guarantee the security of uniform random numbers generated by a quantum random number generator, we study secure extraction of uniform random numbers when the environment of a given quantum state is controlled by the third party, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 Masahito Hayashi , Huangjun Zhu

This work considers a generalization of Grover's search problem, viz., to find any one element in a set of acceptable choices which constitute a fraction f of the total number of choices in an unsorted data base. An infinite family of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chia-Ren Hu