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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

It is proposed that the paradox of wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics may be resolved using a physical picture analogous to magnetic domains. Within this picture, a quantum particle represents a coherent region of a quantum wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan M. Kadin

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

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

Quantum coherence plays a fundamental and operational role in different areas of physics. A resource theory has been developed to characterize the coherence of distinguishable particles systems. Here we show that indistinguishability of…

The resource theory of quantum coherence studies the off-diagonal elements of a density matrix in a distinguished basis, whereas the resource theory of purity studies all deviations from the maximally mixed state. We establish a direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Alexander Streltsov , Hermann Kampermann , Sabine Wölk , Manuel Gessner , Dagmar Bruß

Manipulation and quantification of quantum resources are fundamental problems in quantum physics. In the asymptotic limit, coherence distillation and dilution have been proposed by manipulating infinite identical copies of states. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Qi Zhao , Yunchao Liu , Xiao Yuan , Eric Chitambar , Xiongfeng Ma

From a quantum information perspective, verifying quantum coherence in a quantum experiment typically requires adjusting measurement settings or changing inputs. A paradigmatic example is that of a double-slit experiment, where observing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Fatemeh Bibak , Flavio Del Santo , Borivoje Dakić

Unspeakable coherence is a key feature separating quantum and classical physics. Modelled as asymmetry with respect to a continuous transformation generated by a physically relevant observable, such as the Hamiltonian or angular moment,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Benjamin Stratton , Chung-Yun Hsieh , Paul Skrzypczyk

Quantum coherence, emerging from the 'superposition' of quantum states, is widely used in various information processing tasks. Recently, the resource theory of multilevel quantum coherence is attracting substantial attention. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Limei Zhang , Ting Gao , Fengli Yan

We propose three core ideas: 1. the wave-particle duality of the qudit quantum space; 2. the classification of all elementary quantum gates by ordered pairs of qudit functionals; 3. a new type of quantum gates called the "quantum wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Zixuan Hu , Sabre Kais

It is known that the overlap of two energy eigenstates in a decaying quantum system is bounded from above by a function of the energy detuning and the individual decay rates. This is usually traced back to the positive definiteness of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-23 Jan Wiersig

Quantum coherence is a key element in topical research on quantum resource theories and a primary facilitator for design and implementation of quantum technologies. However, the resourcefulness of quantum coherence is severely restricted by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-01 Uttam Singh , Manabendra Nath Bera , Himadri Shekhar Dhar , Arun Kumar Pati

We consider the physical situations where the resource theories of coherence and thermodynamics play competing roles. In particular, we study the creation of quantum coherence using unitary operations with limited thermodynamic resources.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Avijit Misra , Uttam Singh , Samyadeb Bhattacharya , Arun Kumar Pati

One-dimensional particle states are constructed according to orthogonality conditions, without requiring boundary conditions. Free particle states are constructed using Dirac's delta function orthogonality conditions. The states (doublets)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Gersten

The possibility of a quantum system to exhibit properties that are akin to both the classically held notions of being a particle and a wave, is one of the most intriguing aspects of the quantum description of nature. These aspects have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Sreetama Das , Indranil Chakrabarty , Arun Kumar Pati , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

The notions of coherence and superposition are conceptually the same; however, an important distinction exists between their resource-theoretic formulations. Namely, while basis states are orthogonal in the resource theory of coherence,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Gökhan Torun

Quantum coherence is the outcome of the superposition principle. Recently, it has been theorized as a quantum resource, and is the premise of quantum correlations in multipartite systems. It is therefore interesting to study the coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Asutosh Kumar

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

Quantum states transformation under free operations plays a central role in the resource theory of coherence. In this paper, we investigate the transformation from a mixed coherent state into a pure one by using both incoherent operations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 C. L. Liu , D. L. Zhou