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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

Quantum coherence is the key resource for quantum technology, with applications in quantum optics, information processing, metrology and cryptography. Yet, there is no universally efficient method for quantifying coherence either in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-24 Davide Girolami

Here we investigate the role of quantum interference in the quantum homogenizer, whose convergence properties model a thermalization process. In the original quantum homogenizer protocol, a system qubit converges to the state of identical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Anna Beever , Maria Violaris , Chiara Marletto , Vlatko Vedral

Recent results on the non-universality of fault-tolerant gate sets underline the critical role of resource states, such as magic states, to power scalable, universal quantum computation. Here we develop a resource theory, analogous to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Victor Veitch , Seyed Ali Hamed Mousavian , Daniel Gottesman , Joseph Emerson

We analyze qubit-qubit entanglement from an energetic perspective and reveal an energetic trade-off between quantum coherence and entanglement. We decompose each qubit internal energy into a coherent and an incoherent component. The qubits'…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Kiarn T. Laverick , Samyak P. Prasad , Pascale Senellart , Maria Maffei , Alexia Auffèves

The resource theory of asymmetry is a framework for classifying and quantifying the symmetry-breaking properties of both states and operations relative to a given symmetry. In the special case where the symmetry is the set of translations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Iman Marvian , Robert W. Spekkens , Paolo Zanardi

The ability to live in coherent superpositions is a signature trait of quantum systems and constitutes an irreplaceable resource for quantum-enhanced technologies. However, decoherence effects usually destroy quantum superpositions. It has…

The optimal allocation of resources is a crucial task for their efficient use in a wide range of practical applications in science and engineering. This paper investigates the optimal allocation of resources in multipartite quantum systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Roberto Salazar , Tanmoy Biswas , Jakub Czartowski , Karol Życzkowski , Paweł Horodecki

Since the dawn of quantum theory, coherence was attributed as a key to understand the weirdness of fundamental concepts like the wave-particle duality and the Stern-Gerlach experiment. Recently, based on a resource theory approach, the…

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

Quantum resource theories (QRTs) offer a highly versatile and powerful framework for studying different phenomena in quantum physics. From quantum entanglement to quantum computation, resource theories can be used to quantify a desirable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 Eric Chitambar , Gilad Gour

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

In thermodynamics, quantum coherences - superpositions between energy eigenstates - behave in distinctly nonclassical ways. Recently mathematical frameworks have emerged to account for these features and have provided a range of novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Hyukjoon Kwon , Hyunseok Jeong , David Jennings , Benjamin Yadin , M. S. Kim

Quantum coherence, encoded in the off-diagonal elements of a system's density matrix, is a key resource in quantum thermodynamics, fundamentally limiting the maximum extractable work known as ergotropy. While previous experiments have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Li Li , Silu Zhao , Yun-Hao Shi , Kai Xu , Heng Fan , Dongning Zheng , Zhongcheng Xiang

Quantifying coherence is a key task in both quantum mechanical theory and practical applications. Here, a reliable quantum coherence measure is presented by utilizing the quantum skew information of the state of interest subject to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Chang-shui Yu

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

We present a resource theory to investigate the power of a multqubit system as a probe in the task of dephasing estimation. Our approach employs the quantum Fisher information about the dephasing parameter as the resource measure. Based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Zishi Chen , Xueyuan Hu

We propose a general method to operationally quantify the resourcefulness of quantum channels via channel discrimination, an important information processing task. A main result is that the maximum success probability of distinguishing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Lu Li , Kaifeng Bu , Zi-Wen Liu

Quantum thermodynamics allows for the interconversion of quantum coherence and mechanical work. Quantum coherence is thus a potential physical resource for quantum machines. However, formulating a general nonequilibrium thermodynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Franklin L. S. Rodrigues , Eric Lutz

Quantum resources play crucial roles for displaying superiority in many quantum communication and computation tasks. To reveal the intrinsic relations hidden in these quantum resources, many efforts have been made in recent years. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Wen-Yang Sun , Dong Wang , Bao-Long Fang , Zhi-Yong Ding , Huan Yang , Fei Ming , Liu Ye