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We study different notions of quantum correlations in multipartite systems of distinguishable and indistinguishable particles. Based on the definition of quantum coherence for a single particle, we consider two possible extensions of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Jan Sperling , Armando Perez-Leija , Kurt Busch , Ian A. Walmsley

The precision of nonequilibrium thermodynamic systems is fundamentally limited, yet how quantum coherence shapes these limits remains largely unexplored. A general theoretical framework is introduced that explicitly links quantum coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Shanhe Su , Cong Fu , Ousi Pan , Shihao Xia , Fei Liu , Jincan Chen

Quantum coherence is one of the most basic characteristics of quantum mechanics. Here we give some methods to detect and measure quantum coherence. Firstly, we propose a coherence criterion without full quantum state tomography based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Yiding Wang , Tinggui Zhang

This paper studies the quantification and structural properties of quantum average correlation based on average coherence. Motivated by two mathematically equivalent approaches to define average coherence: one by averaging over complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Xiaoyu Ma , Qing-Hua Zhang , Cong Xu

Entanglement and coherence are fundamental properties of quantum systems, promising to power near future quantum technologies, such as quantum computation, quantum communication and quantum metrology. Yet, their quantification, rather than…

Quantum coherence is a fundamental manifestation of the quantum superposition principle. Recently, Baumgratz \emph{et al}. [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{113}, 140401 (2014)] presented a rigorous framework to quantify coherence from the view of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Xianfei Qi , Ting Gao , Fengli Yan

Quantum coherence is one of the key features that fuels applications for which quantum mechanics exceeds the power of classical physics. This explains the considerable efforts that were undertaken to quantify coherence via quantum resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Michele Masini , Thomas Theurer , Martin B. Plenio

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

The measurement process in quantum mechanics is usually described by the von Neumann projection postulate, which forms a basic constituent of the laws of quantum mechanics. Since this postulate requires the outside observer of the system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Masahiro Morikawa , Akika Nakamichi

Quantum coherence as an important quantum resource plays a key role in quantum theory. In this paper, using entropy-based measures, we investigate the relations between quantum correlated coherence, which is the coherence between subsystems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Xiao-Li Wang , Qiu-Ling Yue , Chao-Hua Yu , Fei Gao , Su-Juan Qin

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…

Quantum decoherence refers to the phenomenon when the interaction of a quantum system with its environment results in the degradation of quantum coherence. Decoherence is considered to be the most popular mechanism responsible for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohd Shoaib Qureshi , Tabish Qureshi

We define correlational (von Neumann) entropy for an individual quantum state of a system whose time-independent hamiltonian contains random parameters and is treated as a member of a statistical ensemble. This entropy is representation…

chao-dyn · Physics 2013-01-16 Valentin V. Sokolov , B. Alex Brown , Vladimir Zelevinsky

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

Quantum coherence is a central ingredient in quantum physics with several theoretical and technological ramifications. In this work we consider a figure of merit encoding the information on how the coherence generated on average by a…

The distribution of coherence in multipartite systems in examined. We use a new coherence measure with entropic nature and metric properties, based on the quantum Jensen-Shannon divergence. The metric property allows for the coherence to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 R. Chandrashekar , P. Manikandan , J. Segar , Tim Byrnes

The concept of quantum coherence, including various ways to quantify the degree of coherence with respect to the prescribed basis, is currently the subject of active research. The complementarity of quantum coherence in different bases was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-08 Alexey E. Rastegin

We reexamine quantum correlation from the fundamental perspective of its consanguineous quantum property, the coherence. We emphasize the importance of specifying the tensor product structure of the total state space before discussing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 Pei Pei , Wei Wang , Chong Li , He-Shan Song

Coherent superposition is a key feature of quantum mechanics that underlies the advantage of quantum technologies over their classical counterparts. Recently, coherence has been recast as a resource theory in an attempt to identify and…

We present first measure of quantum correlation of an ensemble of multiparty states. It is based on the idea of minimal entropy production in a locally distinguishable basis measurement. It is shown to be a relative entropy distance from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-29 Michal Horodecki , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen