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In this note we lay some groundwork for the resource theory of thermodynamics in general probabilistic theories (GPTs). We consider theories satisfying a purely convex abstraction of the spectral decomposition of density matrices: that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Howard Barnum , Jonathan Barrett , Marius Krumm , Markus P. Müller

Quantum resources are certain features of the quantum world that provide advantages in certain information-theoretic, thermodynamic, or any other useful operational tasks that are outside the realm of what classical theories can achieve.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Jatin Ghai , Arindam Mitra

Inspired by its fundamental importance in quantum mechanics, we define and study the notion of entanglement for abstract physical theories, investigating its profound connection with the concept of superposition. We adopt the formalism of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 Guillaume Aubrun , Ludovico Lami , Carlos Palazuelos

We develop a unified framework to characterize one-shot transformations of dynamical quantum resources in terms of resource quantifiers, establishing universal conditions for exact and approximate transformations in general resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Bartosz Regula , Ryuji Takagi

Quantum fidelity estimation is essential for benchmarking quantum states and processes on noisy quantum devices. While stabilizer operations form the foundation of fault-tolerant quantum computing, non-stabilizer resources further enable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Zhiping Liu , Kun Wang , Xin Wang

Quantum resource theories (QRTs) provide a unified framework for characterizing useful quantum phenomena subject to physical constraints, but are notoriously hard to assess in experimental systems. In this letter, we introduce a unified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Naga Dileep Varikuti , Soumik Bandyopadhyay , Philipp Hauke

In this work we present a hierarchy of generalized contextuality. It refines the traditional binary distinction between contextual and noncontextual theories, and facilitates their comparison based on how contextual they are. Our approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Lorenzo Catani , Thomas D. Galley , Tomáš Gonda

The framework of generalized probabilistic theories is a powerful tool for studying the foundations of quantum physics. It provides the basis for a variety of recent findings that significantly improve our understanding of the rich physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-14 Peter Janotta , Haye Hinrichsen

We develop a resource-theoretic framework for quantum coherence directly in continuous basis, with emphasis on the position representation. Since position eigenstates are non-normalizable generalized eigenstates, the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Karol Sajnok , Fabio Costa

Self-testing is a phenomenon where the use of specific quantum states or measurements can be inferred solely from the correlations they generate. We introduce a universal method for conducting robustness analysis in the self-testing of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Shin-Liang Chen , Nikolai Miklin

One of the main problems in any quantum resource theory is the characterization of the conversions between resources by means of the free operations of the theory. In this work, we advance on this characterization within the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 G. M. Bosyk , M. Losada , C. Massri , H. Freytes , G. Sergioli

A protocol for identifying controlled-NOT (CNOT) gates versus single-qubit-only gates in universal quantum circuits using randomized input states was recently shown to be intimately connected to the quantum resource of state texture. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Alexander C. B. Greenwood , Joseph M. Lukens , Li Qian , Brian T. Kirby

We propose an approach to the study of quantum resource manipulation based on the basic observation that quantum channels which preserve certain sets of states are contractive with respect to the base norms induced by those sets. We forgo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Bartosz Regula , Ludovico Lami

A fundamental challenge in quantum resource theory is to establish operational interpretations by quantifying the advantage that quantum resources provide in specific tasks. Conventional resource theories, however, have inherent limitations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Sunho Kim , Chunhe Xiong , Junde Wu

We consider optimal state discrimination in a general convex operational framework, so-called generalized probabilistic theories (GPTs), and present a general method of optimal discrimination by applying the complementarity problem from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Joonwoo Bae , D. -G. Kim , Leong-Chuan Kwek

A formulation towards quantifying resource count used in a measurement, that is independent of the model of the measurement dynamics(Quantum/Classical), is considered. For any general measurement with $(M+1)$ discrete outcomes, it is found…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-16 H. M. Bharath , Saikat Ghosh

Quantifying quantum coherence is a key task in the resource theory of coherence. Here we establish a good coherence monotone in terms of a state conversion process, which automatically endows the coherence monotone with an operational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Deng-hui Yu , Li-qiang Zhang , Chang-shui Yu

General relativity is a deterministic theory with non-fixed causal structure. Quantum theory is a probabilistic theory with fixed causal structure. In this paper we build a framework for probabilistic theories with non-fixed causal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lucien Hardy

We introduce a resource monotone, the completeness stability, to quantify the quality of quantum measurements within a resource-theoretic framework. By viewing a quantum measurement as a frame, the minimum eigenvalue of a frame operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Rakesh Saini , Jukka Kiukas , Daniel Burgarth , Alexei Gilchrist

How useful is a quantum dynamical operation for quantum information processing? Motivated by this question we investigate several strength measures quantifying the resources intrinsic to a quantum operation. We develop a general theory of…