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The concept of a superposition is a revolutionary novelty introduced by Quantum Mechanics. If a system may be in any one of two pure states x and y, we must consider that it may also be in any one of many superpositions of x and y. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-07 Daniel Lehmann

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

A fundamental challenge in quantum resource theory is to establish operational interpretations by quantifying the advantage that quantum resources provide in specific tasks. Conventional resource theories, however, have inherent limitations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Sunho Kim , Chunhe Xiong , Junde Wu

We study the one-shot distillation of general quantum resources, providing a unified quantitative description of the maximal fidelity achievable in this task, and revealing similarities shared by broad classes of resources. We establish…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Bartosz Regula , Kaifeng Bu , Ryuji Takagi , Zi-Wen Liu

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

The diverse range of resources which underlie the utility of quantum states in practical tasks motivates the development of universally applicable methods to measure and compare resources of different types. However, many of such approaches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 Bartosz Regula , Ludovico Lami , Giovanni Ferrari , Ryuji Takagi

In the classical regime, thermodynamic state transformations are governed by the free energy. This is also called as the second law of thermodynamics. Previous works showed that, access to a catalytic system allows us to restore the second…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Tulja Varun Kondra , Ray Ganardi , Alexander Streltsov

Continuous-variable systems realized in quantum optics play a major role in quantum information processing, and it is also one of the promising candidates for a scalable quantum computer. We introduce a resource theory for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Ryuji Takagi , Quntao Zhuang

The superposition principle is one of the landmarks of quantum mechanics. The importance of quantum superpositions provokes questions about the limitations that quantum mechanics itself imposes on the possibility of their generation. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Michał Oszmaniec , Andrzej Grudka , Michał Horodecki , Antoni Wójcik

Coherence arises from the superposition principle and plays a key role in quantum mechanics. Recently, Baumgratz et al. [T. Baumgratz, M. Cramer, and M. B. Plenio, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 140401 (2014)] established a rigorous framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jianwei Xu

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…

In addition to the important role of contextuality in foundations of quantum theory, this intrinsically quantum property has been identified as a potential resource for quantum advantage in different tasks. It is thus of fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Barbara Amaral

Coherent superposition and entanglement are two fundamental aspects of non-classicality. Here we provide a quantitative connection between the two on the level of operations by showing that the dynamical coherence of an operation upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-01 Thomas Theurer , Saipriya Satyajit , Martin B. Plenio

Quantum-state texture is a newly recognized quantum resource that has garnered attention with the advancement of quantum theory. In this work, we address several key aspects of quantum-state texture resource theory, including the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Yuntao Cui , Zhaobing Fan , Sunho Kim

Limitation of computational resources is considered as a universal principle that for simulation is as fundamental as physical laws are. It claims that all experimentally verifiable implications of physical laws can be simulated by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri I. Ozhigov

We initiate the systematic study of resource theories of quantum channels, i.e. of the dynamics that quantum systems undergo by completely positive maps, in abstracto: Resources are in principle all maps from one quantum system to another,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Zi-Wen Liu , Andreas Winter

We propose an alternative framework for quantifying coherence. The framework is based on a natural property of coherence, the additivity of coherence for subspace-independent states, which is described by an operation-independent equality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Xiao-Dong Yu , Da-Jian Zhang , G. F. Xu , D. M. Tong

The principle of superposition is an intriguing feature of Quantum Mechanics, which is regularly exploited at various instances. A recent work [PRL \textbf{116}, 110403 (2016)] shows that the fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics restrict the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-31 Shruti Dogra , George Thomas , Sibasish Ghosh , Dieter Suter

We investigate manipulations of pure quantum states under incoherent or strictly incoherent operations assisted by a coherence battery, that is, a storage device whose degree of coherence is allowed to fluctuate in the process. This leads…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Benjamin Morris , Gerardo Adesso

The subject of this thesis are various properties of quantum states that make them "non-classical" and their behaviour under unitary operations. In chapter 2 some basic concepts of quantum mechanics and quantum information are reviewed. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Joanna Luc