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The incompatibility of quantum measurements, i.e. the fact that certain observable quantities cannot be measured jointly is widely regarded as a distinctive quantum feature with important implications for the foundations and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Lucas Tendick , Costantino Budroni , Marco Túlio Quintino

In this paper we introduce a measure of genuine quantum incompatibility in the estimation task of multiple parameters, that has a geometric character and is backed by a clear operational interpretation. This measure is then applied to some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Federico Belliardo , Vittorio Giovannetti

Quantum coherence is an essential ingredient in quantum information processing and plays a central role in emergent fields such as nanoscale thermodynamics and quantum biology. However, our understanding and quantitative characterization of…

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

Measurement incompatibility is one of the most striking examples of how quantum physics is different from classical physics. Two measurements are incompatible if they cannot arise via classical post-processing from a third one. A natural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Andreas Bluhm , Ion Nechita

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

Coherence is a defining property of quantum theory that accounts for quantum advantage in many quantum information tasks. Although many coherence quantifiers have been introduced in various contexts, the lack of efficient methods to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Sun Liang Liang , Yu Sixia

Measurement incompatibility is one of the basic aspects of quantum theory. Here we study the structure of the set of compatible -- i.e. jointly measurable -- measurements. We are interested in whether or not there exist compatible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Paul Skrzypczyk , Matty J. Hoban , Ana Belén Sainz , Noah Linden

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

Quantum coherence plays a fundamental and operational role in different areas of physics. A resource theory has been developed to characterize the coherence of distinguishable particles systems. Here we show that indistinguishability of…

How well can multiple incompatible observables be implemented by a single measurement? This is a fundamental problem in quantum mechanics with wide implications for the performance optimization of numerous tasks in quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Hongzhen Chen , Lingna Wang , Haidong Yuan

We introduce a procedure based on quantum expectation values of measurement observables to characterize quantum coherence. Our measure allows one to quantify coherence without having to perform tomography of the quantum state, and can be…

Quantum coherence is the key resource in quantum technologies including faster computing, secure communication and advanced sensing. Its quantification and detection are, therefore, paramount within the context of quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Mao-Sheng Li , Wen Xu , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhu-Jun Zheng , Yan-Ling Wang

Some quantum measurements can not be performed simultaneously, i.e. they are incompatible. Here we show that every set of incompatible measurements provides an advantage over compatible ones in a suitably chosen quantum state discrimination…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Paul Skrzypczyk , Ivan Šupić , Daniel Cavalcanti

Quantum coherence and quantum correlations lie in the center of quantum information science, since they both are considered as fundamental reasons for significant features of quantum mechanics different from classical mechanics. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Zeyang Fan , Yi Peng , Yu-Ran Zhang , Shang Liu , Liang-Zhu Mu , Heng Fan

Quantum theory famously entails the existence of incompatible measurements; pairs of observables which cannot be simultaneously measured to arbitrary precision. Incompatibility is widely regarded to be a uniquely quantum phenomenon, linked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 David Theurel

Quantum coherence is the most fundamental feature of quantum mechanics. The usual understanding of it depends on the choice of the basis, that is, the coherence of the same quantum state is different within different reference framework. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-17 Chang-shui Yu , Yi-ren Yang , Bao-qing Guo

Pivotal within quantum physics, the concept of quantum incompatibility is generally related to algebraic aspects of the formalism, such as commutation relations and unbiasedness of bases. Recently, the concept was identified as a resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 E. Martins , M. F. Savi , R. M. Angelo

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

Bell nonlocality is a fundamental phenomenon of quantum physics as well as an essential resource for various tasks in quantum information processing. It is known that for the observation of nonlocality the measurements on a quantum system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Martin Plávala , Otfried Gühne , Marco Túlio Quintino