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Every restriction on quantum operations defines a resource theory, determining how quantum states that cannot be prepared under the restriction may be manipulated and used to circumvent the restriction. A superselection rule is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gilad Gour , Robert W. Spekkens

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

Entanglement quantification aims to assess the value of quantum states for quantum information processing tasks. A closely related problem is state convertibility, asking whether two remote parties can convert a shared quantum state into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Chandan Datta , Ray Ganardi , Tulja Varun Kondra , Alexander Streltsov

In quantum operations, probabilities characterise both the degree of the success of a state transformation and, as density operator eigenvalues, the degree of mixedness of the final state. We give a unified treatment of pure-to-pure state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Anthony Chefles

Quantum coherence, as a direct manifestation of the quantum superposition principle, is a crucial resource in quantum information processing. Block coherence resource theory generalizes the traditional coherence framework by defining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiangyu Chen , Qiang Lei

Quantum coherence is a basic feature of quantum physics. Combined with tensor product structure of state space, it gives rise to the novel concepts such as entanglement and quantum correlations, which play a crucial role in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Kaifeng Bu , Asutosh Kumar , Lin Zhang , Junde Wu

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

In the classical regime, thermodynamic state transformations are governed by the free energy. This is also called as the second law of thermodynamics. Previous works showed that, access to a catalytic system allows us to restore the second…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Tulja Varun Kondra , Ray Ganardi , Alexander Streltsov

Coherence is a basic notion for quantum states. Instead of quantum states, in this work, We establish a resource theory for quantifying the coherence of Gaussian channels. To do this, we propose the definitions of incoherent Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Jianwei Xu

We develop a rigorous connection between statistical properties of an interference pattern and the coherence properties of the underlying quantum state. With explicit examples, we demonstrate that even for inaccurate reconstructions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Kai von Prillwitz , Łukasz Rudnicki , Florian Mintert

Quantum thermodynamics investigates how robust the second law of thermodynamics serves as the unique fundamental law in the small quantum world. To tackle this problem, the quantum coherence constitutes a major difficulty of investigations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Naoto Shiraishi , Ryuji Takagi

The traditional perspective in quantum resource theories concerns how to use free operations to convert one resourceful quantum state to another one. For example, a fundamental and well known question in entanglement theory is to determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Stefan Bäuml , Siddhartha Das , Xin Wang , Mark M. Wilde

The ideas of thermodynamics have proved fruitful in the setting of quantum information theory, in particular the notion that when the allowed transformations of a system are restricted, certain states of the system become useful resources…

Quantum coherence is a fundamental feature of quantum physics and plays a significant role in quantum information processing. By generalizing the resource theory of coherence from von Neumann measurements to positive operator-valued…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Meng-Li Guo , Jin-Min Liang , Bo Li , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

The resource theory of quantum thermodynamics has emerged as a powerful tool for exploring the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of microscopic and highly correlated systems. Recently, it has been employed in photoisomerization, a mechanism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Mattheus Burkhard , Onur Pusuluk , Tristan Farrow

The manipulation of quantum coherence is one of the principal issues in the resource theory of coherence, with two critical topics being the purification and enhancement of coherence. Here, we present two no-go theorems for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Qiming Ding , Quancheng Liu

Quantum complexity is emerging as a key property of many-body systems, including black holes, topological materials, and early quantum computers. A state's complexity quantifies the number of computational gates required to prepare the…

Quantum coherence, incompatibility, and quantum correlations are fundamental features of quantum physics. A unified view of those features is crucial for revealing quantitatively their intrinsic connections. We define the relative quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 Ming-Liang Hu , Heng Fan

Quantum coherence plays a fundamental and operational role in different areas of physics. A resource theory has been developed to characterize the coherence of distinguishable particles systems. Here we show that indistinguishability of…

Quantum coherence, the ability to control the phases in superposition states is a resource, and it is of crucial importance, therefore, to understand how it is consumed in use. It has been suggested that catalytic coherence is possible,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Joan A. Vaccaro , Sarah Croke , Stephen M. Barnett