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We review recent work on the foundations of thermodynamics in the light of quantum information theory. We adopt a resource-theoretic perspective, wherein thermodynamics is formulated as a theory of what agents can achieve under a particular…

The theory of quantum gravity is aimed to fuse general relativity with quantum theory into a more fundamental framework. The space of quantum gravity provides both the non-fixed causality of general relativity and the quantum uncertainty of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-12 Laszlo Gyongyosi , Sandor Imre

Under the principle that quantum mechanical observables are invariant under relevant symmetry transformations, we explore how the usual, non-invariant quantities may capture measurement statistics. Using a relativisation mapping, viewed as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Leon Loveridge , Paul Busch , Takayuki Miyadera

Quantum information processing relies on a variety of resources, including entanglement, coherence, non-Gaussianity, and magic. In realistic settings, protocols run on networks of parties with heterogeneous local resource constraints, so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Ray Ganardi , Jeongrak Son , Jakub Czartowski , Seok Hyung Lie , Nelly H. Y. Ng

The possibility of a quantum system to exhibit properties that are akin to both the classically held notions of being a particle and a wave, is one of the most intriguing aspects of the quantum description of nature. These aspects have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Sreetama Das , Indranil Chakrabarty , Arun Kumar Pati , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

Quantum estimation theory is a reformulation of random statistical theory with the modern language of quantum mechanics. In fact, the density operator plays a role similar to that of probability distribution functions in classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Bakmou Lahcen , Daoud Mohammed

Resource theories in quantum information science are helpful for the study and quantification of the performance of information-processing tasks that involve quantum systems. These resource theories also find applications in other areas of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-09 Eneet Kaur , Siddhartha Das , Mark M. Wilde , Andreas Winter

We employ the resource theory of generalized contextuality as a tool for analyzing the structure of prepare-and-measure scenarios. We argue that this framework simplifies proofs of quantum contextuality in complex scenarios and strengthens…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Rafael Wagner , Roberto D. Baldijão , Alisson Tezzin , Bárbara Amaral

Quantum mechanics and information theory are among the most important scientific discoveries of the last century. Although these two areas initially developed separately it has emerged that they are in fact intimately related. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Vedral

Entanglement and coherence are fundamental properties of quantum systems, promising to power near future quantum technologies, such as quantum computation, quantum communication and quantum metrology. Yet, their quantification, rather than…

The question of whether complex numbers play a fundamental role in quantum theory has been debated since the inception of quantum mechanics. Recently, a feasible proposal to differentiate between real and complex quantum theories based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Jian Yao , Hu Chen , Ya-Li Mao , Zheng-Da Li , Jingyun Fan

A recent experiment testing the necessity of complex numbers in the standard formulation of quantum theory is recreated using IBM quantum computers. To motivate the experiment, we present a basic construction for real-valued quantum theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Jarrett L. Lancaster , Nicholas M. Palladino

Quantum entanglement is a key physical resource in quantum information processing that allows for performing basic quantum tasks such as teleportation and quantum key distribution, which are impossible in the classical world. Ever since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Xin Wang , Mark M. Wilde

A key problem in quantum information science is to determine optimal protocols for the interconversion of entangled states shared between remote parties. While for two parties a large number of results in this direction is available, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Alexander Streltsov

The simulation of quantum effects requires certain classical resources, and quantifying them is an important step in order to characterize the difference between quantum and classical physics. For a simulation of the phenomenon of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Matthias Kleinmann , Otfried Gühne , José R. Portillo , Jan-Åke Larsson , Adán Cabello

Quantum information theory explores the limits of manipulating quantum states. While auxiliary systems often enhance information processing, a systematic explanation for their power has been lacking. This thesis addresses this gap by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Jeongrak Son

Non-stabilizerness or magic resource characterizes the amount of non-Clifford operations needed to prepare quantum states. It is a crucial resource for quantum computing and a necessary condition for quantum advantage. However, quantifying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Tobias Haug , M. S. Kim

The peculiar uncertainty or randomness of quantum measurements stems from coherence, whose information-theoretic characterization is currently under investigation. Under the resource theory of coherence, it is interesting to investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Xiao Yuan , Qi Zhao , Davide Girolami , Xiongfeng Ma

State transformation problems such as compressing quantum information or breaking quantum commitments are fundamental quantum tasks. However, their computational difficulty cannot easily be characterized using traditional complexity theory,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 John Bostanci , Yuval Efron , Tony Metger , Alexander Poremba , Luowen Qian , Henry Yuen

Limitation of computational resources is considered as a universal principle that for simulation is as fundamental as physical laws are. It claims that all experimentally verifiable implications of physical laws can be simulated by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri I. Ozhigov