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Quantum coherence -- an indispensable resource for quantum technologies -- is known to be distillable from a noisy form using operations that cannot create it. However, distillation exacts a hidden coherent measurement cost, which has not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Varun Narasimhachar

Magic-state distillation (or non-stabilizer state manipulation) is a crucial component in the leading approaches to realizing scalable, fault-tolerant, and universal quantum computation. Related to non-stabilizer state manipulation is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Xin Wang , Mark M. Wilde , Yuan Su

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 establish an operational theory of coherence (or of superposition) in quantum systems, by focusing on the optimal rate of performance of certain tasks. Namely, we introduce the two basic concepts - "coherence distillation" and "coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-25 Andreas Winter , Dong Yang

The dependence of quantum algorithms on state fidelity is difficult to characterize analytically and is best explored experimentally as hardware scales and noisy simulations become intractable. While low fidelity states are often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Erika Lloyd , Alexandre Fleury , Marc P. Coons , James Brown , Maritza Hernandez

The ability to distill quantum coherence is pivotal for optimizing the performance of quantum technologies; however, such a task cannot always be accomplished with certainty. Here we develop a general framework of probabilistic distillation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Kun Fang , Xin Wang , Ludovico Lami , Bartosz Regula , Gerardo Adesso

Quantum metrology with entangled resources aims to achieve sensitivity beyond the standard quantum limit by harnessing quantum effects even in the presence of environmental noise. So far, sensitivity has been mainly discussed from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Kaoru Yamamoto , Suguru Endo , Hideaki Hakoshima , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Yuuki Tokunaga

We present an optimal probabilistic protocol to distill quantum coherence. Inspired by a specific entanglement distillation protocol, our main result yields a strictly incoherent operation that produces one of a family of maximally coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Gokhan Torun , Ludovico Lami , Gerardo Adesso , Ali Yildiz

Quantum state purification is the functionality that, given multiple copies of an unknown state, outputs a state with increased purity. This will be an essential building block for near- and middle-term quantum ecosystems before the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Bo Yang , Elham Kashefi , Dominik Leichtle , Harold Ollivier

The information encoded in a quantum system is generally spoiled by the influences of its environment, leading to a transition from pure to mixed states. Reducing the mixedness of a state is a fundamental step in the quest for a feasible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 C. Di Franco , M. Paternostro

Quantum technologies rely on high-quality resource states, such as maximally entangled or private states, which are indispensable for quantum communication and cryptography. In practice, however, these states are inevitably degraded by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Christopher Popp , Tobias C. Sutter , Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

We review the basic idea behind resource theories, where we quantify quantum resources by specifying a restricted class of operations. This divides the state space into various sets, including states which are free (because they can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Michał Horodecki , Jonathan Oppenheim

We present bounds for distilling many copies of a pure state from an arbitrary initial state in a general quantum resource theory. Our bounds apply to operations that are able to generate no more than a $\delta$ amount of resource, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Madhav Krishnan Vijayan , Eric Chitambar , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

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

Any physical quantum device for quantum information processing is subject to errors in implementation. In order to be reliable and efficient, quantum computers will need error correcting or error avoiding methods. Fault-tolerance achieved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Alexandre M. Souza , Jingfu Zhang , Colm A. Ryan , Raymond Laflamme

Coherence distillation is one of the central problems in the resource theory of coherence. In this Letter, we complete the deterministic distillation of quantum coherence for a finite number of coherent states under strictly incoherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 C. L. Liu , D. L. Zhou

Quantum state purification is crucial in quantum communication and computation, aiming to recover a purified state from multiple copies of an unknown noisy state. This work introduces a general state purification framework designed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Hongshun Yao , Yu-Ao Chen , Erdong Huang , Kaichu Chen , Honghao Fu , Xin Wang

Importance sampling based on quasi-probability decomposition is the backbone of many widely used techniques, such as error mitigation, circuit knitting, and, more generally, virtual quantum resource distillation, as it allows one to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Shinnosuke Onishi , Oliver Hahn , Ryuji Takagi

The role of coherence in quantum thermodynamics has been extensively studied in the recent years and it is now well-understood that coherence between different energy eigenstates is a resource independent of other thermodynamics resources,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-09 Iman Marvian

Demonstrating quantum supremacy, a complexity-guaranteed quantum advantage against over the best classical algorithms by using less universal quantum devices, is an important near-term milestone for quantum information processing. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Keisuke Fujii