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Quantum coherence, rooted in the superposition principle of quantum mechanics, is a crucial quantum resource. Various measures, operational interpretations, and generalizations of quantum coherence have been proposed. In recent years, its…

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The superposition of quantum states lies at the heart of physics and has been recently found to serve as a versatile resource for quantum information protocols, defining the notion of quantum coherence. In this contribution, we report on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Valeria Cimini , Ilaria Gianani , Marco Sbroscia , Jan Sperling , Marco Barbieri

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

Quantum coherence is a key resource in quantum information processing scenarios, and quantifying coherence is an important task for both quantum foundation and quantum technology. However, until now, all most of coherence measures are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Wei-Chen Wang , Mao-Fa Fang , Min Yu

Any quantum resource theory is based on free states and free operations, i.e., states and operations which can be created and performed at no cost. In the resource theory of coherence free states are diagonal in some fixed basis, and free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 Julio I. de Vicente , Alexander Streltsov

Quantum coherence is a fundamental property of quantum systems, separating quantum from classical physics. Recently, there has been significant interest in the characterization of quantum coherence as a resource, investigating how coherence…

Quantum resource theories allow us to quantify a useful quantum phenomenon, to develop new protocols for its detection and determine the exact processes that maximize its use for practical tasks. These theories aim at transforming physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Abdallah Slaoui

Quantum coherence was recently formalized as a physical resource to measure the strength of superposition. Based on the resource theory, we present a systematic framework that connects a coherence measure to the security of quantum key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Jiajun Ma , You Zhou , Xiao Yuan , Xiongfeng Ma

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

Quantum coherence is a crucial resource in quantum resource theory. Previous study mainly focused on standard coherence under a complete orthogonal reference basis. The standard coherence has recently been extended to general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Yu-Cheng Chen , Jiong Cheng , Wen-Zhao Zhang , Cheng-Jie Zhang

The diverse range of resources which underlie the utility of quantum states in practical tasks motivates the development of universally applicable methods to measure and compare resources of different types. However, many of such approaches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 Bartosz Regula , Ludovico Lami , Giovanni Ferrari , Ryuji Takagi

From an operational perspective, quantumness characterizes the exotic behavior in a physical process which cannot be explained with Newtonian physics. There are several widely used measures of quantumness, including coherence, discord, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Xiao Yuan , Hongyi Zhou , Mile Gu , Xiongfeng Ma

In many a traditional physics textbook, a quantum measurement is defined as a projective measurement represented by a Hermitian operator. In quantum information theory, however, the concept of a measurement is dealt with in complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Ravi Kunjwal , Chris Heunen , Tobias Fritz

One of the fundamental features of quantum mechanics is the superposition principle, a manifestation of which is embodied in quantum coherence. Coherence of a quantum state is invariably defined with respect to a preferred set of pointer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Chirag Srivastava , Sreetama Das , Ujjwal Sen

Coherence is intrinsically related to projective measurement. When the fixed projective measurement involves higher-rank projectors, the coherence resource is referred to as block coherence, which comes from the superposition of orthogonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Yu-Hui Wang , Li-Hang Ren , Ming-Liang Hu , Yan-Kui Bai

In quantum information, most information processing processes involve quantum channels. One manifestation of a quantum channel is quantum operation acting on quantum states. The coherence of quantum operations can be considered as a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Xiaorong Wang , Ting Gao , Fengli Yan

The concept of coherence is one of cornerstones in physics. The development of quantum information science has lead to renewed interest in properly approaching the coherence at the quantum level. Various measures could be proposed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Alexey E. Rastegin

Decoherence is all around us. Every quantum system that interacts with the environment is doomed to decohere. The preservation of quantum coherence is one of the major challenges faced in quantum technologies, but its use as a resource is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Gaurav Saxena , Eric Chitambar , Gilad Gour

Quantum coherence as an important quantum resource plays a key role in quantum theory. In this paper, using entropy-based measures, we investigate the relations between quantum correlated coherence, which is the coherence between subsystems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Xiao-Li Wang , Qiu-Ling Yue , Chao-Hua Yu , Fei Gao , Su-Juan Qin

The resource theory of coherence studies the operational value of superpositions in quantum technologies. A key question in this theory concerns the efficiency of manipulation and inter-conversion of the resource. Here we solve this…