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Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental concept in quantum information theory, which refers to a class of techniques to identify a specific quantum state through a positive operator-valued measure. In this work, we investigate how…

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The superposition of quantum states lies at the heart of physics and has been recently found to serve as a versatile resource for quantum information protocols, defining the notion of quantum coherence. In this contribution, we report on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Valeria Cimini , Ilaria Gianani , Marco Sbroscia , Jan Sperling , Marco Barbieri

Quantum coherence with respect to orthonormal bases has been studied extensively in the past few years. Recently, Bischof, et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 110402 (2019)] generalized it to the case of general positive operator-valued measure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Jianwei Xu , Lian-He Shao , Shao-Ming Fei

Recently, trace distance measure of coherence has been proposed for characterizing the coherence of a given quantum state. However, it seems difficult to estimate the optimal incoherent state for high dimensional states. An explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 Zhen Wang , Yan-Ling Wang , Zhi-Xi Wang

In recent years, several measures have been proposed for characterizing the coherence of a given quantum state. We derive several results that illuminate how these measures behave when restricted to pure states. Notably, we present an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Jianxin Chen , Shane Grogan , Nathaniel Johnston , Chi-Kwong Li , Sarah Plosker

We consider a protocol to perform the optimal quantum state discrimination of $N$ linearly independent non-orthogonal pure quantum states and present a computational code. Through the extension of the original Hilbert space, it is possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Wilson R. M. Rabelo , Alexandre G. Rodrigues , Reinaldo O. Vianna

The geometric quantization problem is considered from the point of view of the Davies and Lewis approach to quantum mechanics. The influence of the measuring device is accounted in the classical and quantum case and it is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. A. Nikolov , D. A. Trifonov

Quantum coherence is a key resource in quantum information processing scenarios, and quantifying coherence is an important task for both quantum foundation and quantum technology. However, until now, all most of coherence measures are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Wei-Chen Wang , Mao-Fa Fang , Min Yu

Examples of geometric phases abound in many areas of physics. They offer both fundamental insights into many physical phenomena and lead to interesting practical implementations. One of them, as indicated recently, might be an inherently…

Quantum coherence and non-classical correlation are key features of quantum world. Quantifying coherence and non-classical correlation are two key tasks in quantum information theory. First, we present a bona fide measure of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-29 Zhi-Xiang Jin , Shao-Ming Fei

We investigate the level surfaces of geometric measure of quantum discord, and provide a pictorial interpretation of geometric discord for Bell-diagonal states. We have observed its nonanalytic behavior under decoherence employing this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-21 Yao Yao , Hong-Wei Li , Zhen-Qiang Yin , Zheng-Fu Han

We establish the profound equivalence between measures of genuine multipartite entanglement(GME) and their corresponding coherence measures. Initially we construct two distinct classes of measures for genuine multipartite entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Zong Wang , Zhihua Guo , Zhihua Chen , Ming Li , Zihang Zhou , Chengjie Zhang , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhihao Ma

We investigate the discrimination of pure-mixed (quantum filtering) and mixed-mixed states and compare their optimal success probability with the one for discriminating other pairs of pure states superposed by the vectors included in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-24 Jin-Hua Zhang , Fu-Lin Zhang , Zhi-Xi Wang , Hui Yang , Shao-Ming Fei

Coherence is a cornerstone of quantum theory and a prerequisite for the advantage of quantum technologies. In recent work, the notion of coherence with respect to a general quantum measurement (POVM) was introduced and embedded into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Felix Bischof , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß

We interpret quantum computing as a geometric evolution process by reformulating finite quantum systems via Connes' noncommutative geometry. In this formulation, quantum states are represented as noncommutative connections, while gauge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-21 Zeqian Chen

Quantum entanglement between several particles is essential for applications like quantum metrology or quantum cryptography, but it is also central for foundational phenomena like quantum non-locality. This leads to the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Lisa T. Weinbrenner , Otfried Gühne

We show a geometric formulation for minimum-error discrimination of qubit states, that can be applied to arbitrary sets of qubit states given with arbitrary a priori probabilities. In particular, when qubit states are given with equal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Joonwoo Bae , Won-Young Hwang

One of the fundamental features of quantum mechanics is the superposition principle, a manifestation of which is embodied in quantum coherence. Coherence of a quantum state is invariably defined with respect to a preferred set of pointer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Chirag Srivastava , Sreetama Das , Ujjwal Sen

Based on a generic quantum open system model, we study the geometric nature of decoherence by defining a complex-valued geometric phase through stochastic pure states describing non-unitary, non-cyclic and non-adiabatic evolutions. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Da-Wei Luo , Hai-Qing Lin , J. Q. You , Lian-Ao Wu , Rupak Chatterjee , Ting Yu

A geometrically uniform (GU) ensemble is a uniformly weighted quantum state ensemble generated from a fixed state by a unitary representation of a finite group $G$. In this work we analyze the problem of discriminating GU ensembles from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Juntai Zhou , Stefano Chessa , Eric Chitambar , Felix Leditzky