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Bell inequalities are a consequence of measurement incompatibility (not, as generally thought, of nonlocality). In classical terms, this is equivalent to contextuality -- measurement devices do have a significant effect. Contextual models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Morgan

Measurement incompatibility is a cornerstone of quantum mechanics. In the context of estimating multiple parameters of a quantum system, this manifests as a fundamental trade-off between the precisions with which different parameters can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Simon K. Yung , Aritra Das , Jun Suzuki , Ping Koy Lam , Jie Zhao , Lorcán O. Conlon , Syed M. Assad

Little effort has been devoted to studying generalised notions or models of (un)predictability, yet is an important concept throughout physics and plays a central role in quantum information theory, where key results rely on the supposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-27 Alastair A. Abbott , Cristian S. Calude , Karl Svozil

We investigate the role of symmetric quantum cloning machines (QCMs) in quantifying the mutual incompatibility of quantum observables. Specifically, we identify a cloning-based incompatibility measure whereby the incompatibility of a set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-20 Arindam Mitra , Prabha Mandayam

Quantum measurements based on mutually unbiased bases are commonly used in quantum information processing, as they are generally viewed as being maximally incompatible and complementary. Here we quantify precisely the degree of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Sébastien Designolle , Paul Skrzypczyk , Florian Fröwis , Nicolas Brunner

The theory of majorization has seen substantial application in quantum information. Its framework predicates on the comparability between real vectors. We explore the antithesis of this premise, namely, incomparability. Specifically, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Liwen Hu

For a pair of observables, they are called "incompatible", if and only if the commutator between them does not vanish, which represents one of the key features in quantum mechanics. The question is, how can we characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Yunlong Xiao , Cheng Guo , Fei Meng , Naihuan Jing , Man-Hong Yung

Relevance of key quantum information measures for analysis of quantum systems is discussed. It is argued that possible ways of measuring quantum information are based on compatibility/incompatibility of the quantum states of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 B. A. Grishanin , V. N. Zadkov

Uncertainty principle is one of the cornerstones of quantum theory. In the literature, there are two types of uncertainty relations, the operator form concerning the variances of physical observables and the entropy form related to entropic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-18 Jun-Li Li , Cong-Feng Qiao

Recently, a measure has been put forward which allows for the quantification of the degree of reality of an observable for a given preparation [A. L. O. Bilobran and R. M. Angelo, Europhys. Lett. 112, 40005 (2015)]. Here we employ this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 P. R. Dieguez , R. M. Angelo

A beautiful idea about the incompatibility of Physical Context(IPC) was introduced in Phys. Rev. A 102, 050201(R) (2020). Here, a context is defined as a set of a quantum state and two sharp rank-one measurements, and the incompatibility of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Arindam Mitra , Gautam Sharma , Sibasish Ghosh

In contrast with classical physics, in quantum physics some sets of measurements are incompatible in the sense that they can not be performed simultaneously. Among other applications, incompatibility allows for contextuality and Bell…

Measurement-Based Quantum Networks (MBQNs) rely on multipartite pre-shared entanglement resources to satisfy entanglement requests. Traditional designs optimize these resources for individual tasks, neglecting that multiple tasks may arrive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Jakob Kaltoft Søndergaard , René Bødker Christensen , Petar Popovski

We introduce a measure of the compatibility between quantum states--the likelihood that two density matrices describe the same object. Our measure is motivated by two elementary requirements, which lead to a natural definition. We list some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Poulin , Robin Blume-Kohout

The notion that any physical quantity is defined and measured relative to a reference frame is traditionally not explicitly reflected in the theoretical description of physical experiments where, instead, the relevant observables are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-25 Takayuki Miyadera , Leon Loveridge , Paul Busch

Quantum measurement is a fundamental concept in the field of quantum mechanics. The action of quantum measurement, leading the superposition state of the measured quantum system into a definite output state, not only reconciles…

General Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Wei Wen

We introduce the concept of degree of quantumness in quantum synchronization, a measure of the quantum nature of synchronization in quantum systems. Following techniques from quantum information, we propose the number of non-commuting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 H. Eneriz , D. Z. Rossatto , F. A. Cárdenas-L'opez , E. Solano , M. Sanz

The uncertainty principle and entanglement are two fundamental, but yet not well understood, features of quantum theory. The uncertainty relation reflects the capability limit in acquiring the knowledge of different physical properties of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Jun-Li Li , Cong-Feng Qiao

It is well known that in quantum mechanics we cannot always define consistently properties that are context independent. Many approaches exist to describe contextual properties, such as Contextuality by Default (CbD), sheaf theory, topos…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 J. Acacio de Barros , Federico Holik , Decio Krause

Quantum coherence is a key element in topical research on quantum resource theories and a primary facilitator for design and implementation of quantum technologies. However, the resourcefulness of quantum coherence is severely restricted by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-01 Uttam Singh , Manabendra Nath Bera , Himadri Shekhar Dhar , Arun Kumar Pati