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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

We show that incoherent operations (IOs) can achieve the state transformations that are forbidden under dephasing-covariant incoherent operations (DIOs), thereby resolving the open problem posed by Chitambar and Gour [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 C. L. Liu

A fundamental task in any physical theory is to quantify certain physical quantity in a meaningful way. In this paper we show that both fidelity distance and affinity distance satisfy the strong contractibility, and the corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Chunhe Xiong , Asutosh Kumar , Minyi Huang , Sreetama Das , Ujjwal Sen , Junde Wu

In this paper, we address the issue of enhancing coherence of a state under stochastic strictly incoherent operations. Based on the $l_1$ norm of coherence, we obtain the maximal value of coherence that can be achieved for a state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 C. L. Liu , Yan-Qing Guo , D. M. Tong

In quantum information, most information processing processes involve quantum channels. One manifestation of a quantum channel is quantum operation acting on quantum states. The coherence of quantum operations can be considered as a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Xiaorong Wang , Ting Gao , Fengli Yan

By utilizing single particle interferometry, the fidelity or coherence of a pair of quantum states is identified with their capacity for interference. We consider processes acting on the internal degree of freedom (e.g., spin or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel K. L. Oi , Johan Aberg

Any quantum resource theory is based on free states and free operations, i.e., states and operations which can be created and performed at no cost. In the resource theory of coherence free states are diagonal in some fixed basis, and free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 Julio I. de Vicente , Alexander Streltsov

Quantum channels underlie the dynamics of quantum systems, but in many practical settings it is the channels themselves that require processing. We establish universal limitations on the processing of both quantum states and channels,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Bartosz Regula , Ryuji Takagi

We consider the problem of quantum state certification, where we are given the description of a mixed state $\sigma \in \mathbb{C}^{d \times d}$, $n$ copies of a mixed state $\rho \in \mathbb{C}^{d \times d}$, and $\varepsilon > 0$, and we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Sitan Chen , Brice Huang , Jerry Li , Allen Liu

In realistic quantum information processing tasks, quantum states are inevitably affected by environmental noise, leading to decoherence and degradation of useful quantum resources. The coherence fraction, which serves as an important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Priyabrata Char , Dipayan Chakraborty , Indrani Chattopadhyay , Debasis Sarkar

Any quantum resource theory is based on free states and free operations, i.e., states and operations which can be created and performed at no cost. In the resource theory of coherence free states are diagonal in some fixed basis, and free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-26 Julio I. de Vicente , Alexander Streltsov

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 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…

We study the one-shot distillation of general quantum resources, providing a unified quantitative description of the maximal fidelity achievable in this task, and revealing similarities shared by broad classes of resources. We establish…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Bartosz Regula , Kaifeng Bu , Ryuji Takagi , Zi-Wen Liu

The manipulation of quantum "resources" such as entanglement, coherence and magic states lies at the heart of quantum science and technology, empowering potential advantages over classical methods. In practice, a particularly important kind…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Kun Fang , Zi-Wen Liu

Quantum distillation is the task of concentrating quantum correlations present in 'N' imperfect copies using free operations by involving all 'P' parties sharing the quantum correlations. We present a threshold quantum distillation task…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Shashank Gupta , William John Munro , Carlos Cid

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

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

The concept of entanglement fraction is generalized to define coherence fraction of a quantum state. Precisely, it quantifies the proximity of a quantum state to maximally coherent state and it can be used as a measure of coherence.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-21 Sumana Karmakar , Ajoy Sen , Indrani Chattopadhyay , Amit Bhar , Debasis Sarkar

Quantum coherence is a useful resource that is consumed to accomplish several tasks that classical devices are hard to fulfill. Especially, it is considered to be the origin of quantum speedup for many computational algorithms. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Seungbeom Chin , Joonsuk Huh