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Various measures have been suggested recently for quantifying the coherence of a quantum state with respect to a given basis. We first use two of these, the l_1-norm and relative entropy measures, to investigate tradeoffs between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-08 Shuming Cheng , Michael J. W. Hall

Quantum coherence, like entanglement, is a fundamental resource in quantum information. In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in formulating resource theory of coherence from a broader perspective. The notions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Sunho Kim , Chunhe Xiong , Asutosh Kumar , Guijun Zhang , Junde Wu

In this paper, we detail an orthogonalization procedure that allows for the quantification of the amount of coherence present an arbitrary superposition of coherent states. The present construction is based on the quantum coherence resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Kok Chuan Tan , Tyler Volkoff , Hyukjoon Kwon , Hyunseok Jeong

Quantum coherence is one of the most significant theories in quantum physics. Ordering states with various coherence measures is an intriguing task in quantification theory of coherence. In this paper, we study this problem by use of four…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Long-Mei Yang , Bin Chen , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

We provide a general construction of convex roof measures of coherence. This construction is based on arbitrary coherence measures of pure states in the framework of resource theory of coherence. Convex roof measures of coherence bound from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Yi Peng , Heng Fan

In recent years, several measures have been proposed for characterizing the coherence of a given quantum state. We derive several results that illuminate how these measures behave when restricted to pure states. Notably, we present an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Jianxin Chen , Shane Grogan , Nathaniel Johnston , Chi-Kwong Li , Sarah Plosker

The resource theory of coherence studies the operational value of superpositions in quantum technologies. A key question in this theory concerns the efficiency of manipulation and interconversion of this resource. Here we solve this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Thomas Theurer , Alexander Streltsov , Martin B. Plenio

Quantum coherence and quantum correlations are of fundamental and practical significance for the development of quantum mechanics.They are also cornerstones of quantum computation and quantum communication theory. Searching physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Ming-Liang Hu , Xueyuan Hu , Jie-Ci Wang , Yi Peng , Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan

Quantum coherence, present whenever a quantum system exists in a superposition of multiple classically distinct states, marks one of the fundamental departures from classical physics. Quantum coherence has recently been investigated…

Coherence and entanglement are fundamental properties of quantum systems, promising to power the near future quantum computers, sensors and simulators. Yet, their experimental detection is challenging, usually requiring full reconstruction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin , Xiao Yuan , Qi Zhao , Davide Girolami , Xiongfeng Ma

Quantum coherence is one of the most basic characteristics of quantum mechanics. Here we give some methods to detect and measure quantum coherence. Firstly, we propose a coherence criterion without full quantum state tomography based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Yiding Wang , Tinggui Zhang

We discuss a general strategy to construct coherence measures. One can build an important class of coherence measures which cover the relative entropy measure for pure states, the $l_1$-norm measure for pure states and the $\alpha$-entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Shuanping Du , Zhaofang Bai , Xiaofei Qi

Quantum states may exhibit asymmetry with respect to the action of a given group. Such an asymmetry of states can be considered as a resource in applications such as quantum metrology, and it is a concept that encompasses quantum coherence…

The uncertainty relation is a distinctive characteristic of quantum theory. The uncertainty is essentially rooted in quantum states. In this work we regard the uncertainty as an intrinsic property of quantum state and characterize it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Ming-Jing Zhao , Yuanhong Tao

Quantum coherence is a central ingredient in quantum physics with several theoretical and technological ramifications. In this work we consider a figure of merit encoding the information on how the coherence generated on average by a…

Quantum coherence is a critical resource for many operational tasks. Understanding how to quantify and manipulate it also promises to have applications for a diverse set of problems in theoretical physics. For certain applications, however,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Iman Marvian , Robert W. Spekkens

In this paper, by minimizing the coherence quantifiers over all states in an $\epsilon$ ball around a given state, we define a generalized smooth quantifier, called the $\epsilon$-smooth measure of coherence. We use it to estimate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Zhengjun Xi , Shanshan Yuwen

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

We investigate the generic aspects of quantum coherence guided by the concentration of measure phenomenon. We find the average relative entropy of coherence of pure quantum states sampled randomly from the uniform Haar measure and show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Uttam Singh , Lin Zhang , Arun Kumar Pati

In the quantitative theory of quantum coherence, the amount of coherence for given states can be meaningfully discussed only when referring to a preferred basis. One of the objections to this quantification is that the amount of coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Zhi-Xiang Jin , Yuan-Hong Tao , Bing Yu , Shao-Ming Fei