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Quantum coherence and distributed correlations among subparties are often considered as separate, although operationally linked to each other, properties of a quantum state. Here, we propose a measure able to quantify the contributions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Gian Luca Giorgi , Roberta Zambrini

Entanglement is not only fundamental for understanding multipartite quantum systems but also generally useful for quantum information applications. Despite much effort devoted so far, little is known about minimal resources for detecting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-02 Chang Jian Kwong , Simone Felicetti , Leong Chuan Kwek , Joonwoo Bae

Multi-photon interference is at the heart of the recently proposed linear optical quantum computing scheme and plays an essential role in many protocols in quantum information. Indistinguishability is what leads to the effect of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 B. H. Liu , F. W. Sun , Y. X. Gong , Y. F. Huang , Z. Y. Ou , G. C. Guo

Entanglement is a key resource in quantum technologies, enhancing precision and resolution in imaging and sensing by leveraging the cross-correlation of photon pairs. This correlation enables precise time synchronization of photons reaching…

From a quantum information perspective, verifying quantum coherence in a quantum experiment typically requires adjusting measurement settings or changing inputs. A paradigmatic example is that of a double-slit experiment, where observing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Fatemeh Bibak , Flavio Del Santo , Borivoje Dakić

Quantum coherence plays a crucial role in manipulating and controlling quantum systems, leading to breakthroughs in various fields such as quantum information, quantum sensing, and the detection of gravitational waves. Most coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Yan-Han Yang , Xue Yang , Xing-Zhou Zheng , Ming-Xing Luo

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 interferometry based on induced-coherence phenomena has demonstrated the possibility of undetected-photon measurements. Perturbation in the optical path of probe photons can be detected by interference signals generated by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Eun Mi Kim , Sun Kyung Lee , Sang Min Lee , Myeong Soo Kang , Hee Su Park

A pair of quantum observables diagonal in the same "incoherent" basis can be measured jointly, so some coherence is obviously required for measurement incompatibility. Here we first observe that coherence in a single observable is linked to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 Jukka Kiukas , Daniel McNulty , Juha-Pekka Pellonpää

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

We show that standard multi-path interferometry, using only pairwise visibility measurements, provides an operational route to tests of preparation noncontextuality. Under ideal symmetric conditions, interference visibility directly encodes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Mohd Asad Siddiqui

We present entanglement witnesses for detecting genuine multi-qubit entanglement. Our constructions are robust against noise and require only two local measurement settings, independent of the number of qubits. Thus they allow to verify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Geza Toth , Otfried Guehne

Photon-mediated interactions between atomic systems can arise via coupling to a common electromagnetic mode or by quantum interference. Here, we probe the role of coherence in cooperative emission arising from two distant but…

The detection and characterization of quantum coherence is of fundamental importance both in the foundations of quantum theory as well as for the rapidly developing field of quantum technologies, where coherence has been linked to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Rhea Alexander , Michalis Skotiniotis , Daniel Manzano

The ability that one system immediately affects another one by using local measurements is regarded as quantum steering, which can be detected by various steering criteria. Recently, Mondal et al. [Phys. Rev. A 98, 052330 (2018)] derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 Huan Yang , Zhi-Yong Ding , Xue-Ke Song , Hao Yuan , Dong Wang , Jie Yang , Chang-Jin Zhang , Liu Ye

The measurement problem in quantum mechanics arises from the apparent collapse of a superposition state to a definite outcome when a measurement is made. Although treating the measuring apparatus as a classical system has been a successful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Vishwas KS

Quantum coherence stemming from the superposition behaviour of a particle beyond the classical realm, serves as one of the most fundamental features in quantum mechanics. The wave-particle duality phenomenon, which shares the same origin,…

The quantification of quantum correlations (other than entanglement) usually entails laboured numerical optimization procedures also demanding quantum state tomographic methods. Thus it is interesting to have a laboratory friendly witness…

We report on a new class of dimension witnesses, based on quantum random access codes, which are a function of the recorded statistics and that have different bounds for all possible decompositions of a high-dimensional physical system.…

The measures of distances between points in a Hilbert space are one of the basic theoretical concepts used to characterize properties of a quantum system with respect to some etalon state. These are not only used in studying fidelity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Karol Bartkiewicz , Vojtěch Trávníček , Karel Lemr