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Quantum information science provides powerful technologies beyond the scope of classical physics. In practice, accurate control of quantum operations is a challenging task with current quantum devices. The implementation of high fidelity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Guoding Liu , Xingjian Zhang , Xiongfeng Ma

In a recent work, arXiv:2503.05884, we proposed a unified notion of nonclassicality that applies to arbitrary processes in quantum theory, including individual quantum states, measurements, channels, set of these, etc. This notion is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Yujie Zhang , Yìlè Yīng , David Schmid

We defne the resource non-increasing (RNI) framework to study the dynamical resource theory. With such a defnition, we propose several potential quantifcation candidates under various free operation sets. For explicit demonstrations, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Siren Yang , Changshui Yu

Quantum operations are used to describe the observed probability distributions and conditional states of the measured system. In this paper, we address the problem of their joint measurability (coexistence). We derive two equivalent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-21 Teiko Heinosaari , Daniel Reitzner , Peter Stano , Mario Ziman

Quantum coherence and quantum entanglement represent two fundamental features of non-classical systems that can each be characterized within an operational resource theory. In this paper, we unify the resource theories of entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Eric Chitambar , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Contextuality is a signature of operational nonclassicality in the outcome statistics of an experiment. This notion of nonclassicality applies to a breadth of physical phenomena. Here, we establish its relation to two fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-07 Armin Tavakoli , Roope Uola

A central problem in quantum resource theory is to give operational meaning to quantum resources that can provide clear advantages in certain physical tasks compared to the convex set of resource-free states. We propose to extend this basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Sunho Kim , Chunhe Xiong , Junde Wu

In this paper we consider quantum resources required to maximize the mean values of any nontrivial quantum observable. We show that the task of maximizing the mean value of an observable is equivalent to maximizing some form of coherence,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 Kok Chuan Tan , Seongjeon Choi , Hyunseok Jeong

Recent developments surrounding resource theories have shown that any quantum state or measurement resource, with respect to a convex (and compact) set of resourceless objects, provides an advantage in a tailored subchannel or state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Roope Uola , Tristan Kraft , Alastair A. Abbott

The peculiar uncertainty or randomness of quantum measurements stems from coherence, whose information-theoretic characterization is currently under investigation. Under the resource theory of coherence, it is interesting to investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Xiao Yuan , Qi Zhao , Davide Girolami , Xiongfeng Ma

We define the coherence non-activating measurement as the positive operator-valued measurement which gives the same result whether or not the coherence in a quantum state is destroyed. A connection is built between the coherence activating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-24 Xueyuan Hu

The use of imaginary numbers in modelling quantum mechanical systems encompasses the wave-like nature of quantum states. Here we introduce a resource theoretic framework for imaginarity, where the free states are taken to be those with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Alexander Hickey , Gilad Gour

We investigate the maximally coherent states to provide a refinement in quantifying coherence and give a measure-independent definition of the coherence-preserving operations. A maximally coherent state can be considered as the resource to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Yi Peng , Yong Jiang , Heng Fan

Quantum coherence is an essential ingredient in quantum information processing and plays a central role in emergent fields such as nanoscale thermodynamics and quantum biology. However, our understanding and quantitative characterization of…

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…

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

Quantum coherence is a fundamental feature of quantum mechanics and an underlying requirement for most quantum information tasks. In the resource theory of coherence, incoherent states are diagonal with respect to a fixed orthonormal basis,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Felix Bischof , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß

Complex numbers are theoretically proved and experimentally confirmed as necessary in quantum mechanics and quantum information, and a resource theory of imaginarity of quantum states has been established. In this work, we establish a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Chuanfa Wu , Zhaoqi Wu

In this work we investigate how to quantify the coherence of quantum measurements. First, we establish a resource theoretical framework to address the coherence of measurement and show that any statistical distance can be adopted to define…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Kyunghyun Baek , Adel Sohbi , Jaehak Lee , Jaewan Kim , Hyunchul Nha

Quantum coherence is an essential feature of quantum mechanics which is responsible for the departure between classical and quantum world. The recently established resource theory of quantum coherence studies possible quantum technological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-06 Alexander Streltsov , Swapan Rana , Paul Boes , Jens Eisert