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We introduce a rigorous framework for the quantification of coherence and identify intuitive and easily computable measures of coherence. We achieve this by adopting the viewpoint of coherence as a physical resource. By determining defining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 T. Baumgratz , M. Cramer , M. B. Plenio

Criteria of measure quantifying quantum coherence, a unique property of quantum system, are proposed recently. In this paper, we first give an uncertainty-like expression relating the coherence and the entropy of quantum system. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Zhengjun Xi , Yongming Li , Heng Fan

The effects of the measurement apparatus on quantum coherence are studied by considering a purely dephasing model of a qubit. The initial state is prepared from a thermal state of the whole system by performing a nonselective measurement on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Filippo Giraldi

We define a complete measurement of a quantum observable (POVM) as a measurement of the maximally refined version of the POVM. Complete measurements give information from the multiplicities of the measurement outcomes and can be viewed as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Juha-Pekka Pellonpää

We formulate the Frobenius-norm-based measures for quantum coherence and asymmetry respectively. In contrast to the resource theory of coherence and asymmetry, we construct a natural measure of quantum coherence inspired from optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yao Yao , G. H. Dong , Xing Xiao , C. P. Sun

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

Quantum measurements can produce randomness arising from the uncertainty principle. When measuring a state with von Neumann measurements, the intrinsic randomness can be quantified by the quantum coherence of the state on the measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Hao Dai , Boyang Chen , Xingjian Zhang , Xiongfeng Ma

The concept of quantum coherence, including various ways to quantify the degree of coherence with respect to the prescribed basis, is currently the subject of active research. The complementarity of quantum coherence in different bases was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-08 Alexey E. Rastegin

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

A measurement is deemed successful, if one can maximize the information gain by the measurement apparatus. Here, we ask if quantum coherence of the system imposes a limitation on the information gain during quantum measurement. First, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 Gautam Sharma , Sk Sazim , Arun Kumar Pati

The quantification of the quantumness of a quantum ensemble has theoretical and practical significance in quantum information theory. We propose herein a class of measures of the quantumness of quantum ensembles using the unitary similarity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Xianfei Qi , Ting Gao , Fengli Yan

Quantum memories are an important building block for quantum information processing. Ideally, these memories preserve the quantum properties of the input. We present general criteria for measures to evaluate the quality of quantum memories.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Timo Simnacher , Nikolai Wyderka , Cornelia Spee , Xiao-Dong Yu , Otfried Gühne

Recently, the basic concept of quantum coherence (or superposition) has gained a lot of renewed attention, after Baumgratz et al. [PRL 113:140401 (2014)], following \AA{}berg [arXiv:quant-ph/0612146], have proposed a resource theoretic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Tanmoy Biswas , María García Díaz , Andreas Winter

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…

Quantum coherence is the most distinguished signature of quantum mechanics, also recognized to be an essential resource for many promising quantum technologies, playing a central role in phenomena related to quantum information science,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Bertúlio de Lima Bernardo

Coherence, the superposition of orthogonal quantum states, is indispensable in various quantum processes. Inspired by the polynomial invariant for classifying and quantifying entanglement, we first define polynomial coherence measure and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 You Zhou , Qi Zhao , Xiao Yuan , Xiongfeng Ma

Quantum coherence and non-classical correlation are key features of quantum world. Quantifying coherence and non-classical correlation are two key tasks in quantum information theory. First, we present a bona fide measure of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-29 Zhi-Xiang Jin , Shao-Ming Fei

Quantum phase estimation is a core task in quantum technologies ranging from metrology to quantum computing, where it appears as a key subroutine in various algorithms. Here, we quantitatively connect the performance of phase estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Felix Ahnefeld , Thomas Theurer , Martin B. Plenio

The measurement postulate of quantum theory stands in conflict with the laws of thermodynamics and has evoked debate regarding what actually constitutes a measurement. With the help of modern quantum statistical mechanics, we take the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Emanuel Schwarzhans , Felix C. Binder , Marcus Huber , Maximilian P. E. Lock

A quantitative measure of quantum coherence was recently introduced, in the context of quantum information theory. This measure has also been propounded as a good quantifier of the wave nature of quantum objects. However, actually measuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Tania Paul , Tabish Qureshi