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Quantum coherence is an essential feature of quantum mechanics and is an important physical resource in quantum information. Recently, the resource theory of quantum coherence has been established parallel with that of entanglement. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Si-ren Yang , Chang-shui Yu

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

We identify and explore the intriguing property of resource resonance arising within resource theories of entanglement, coherence and thermodynamics. While the theories considered are reversible asymptotically, the same is generally not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Kamil Korzekwa , Christopher T. Chubb , Marco Tomamichel

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

Thermodynamics of quantum coherence has attracted growing attention recently, where the thermodynamic advantage of quantum superposition is characterized in terms of quantum thermodynamics. We investigate thermodynamic effects of quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-25 Yûto Murashita , Zongping Gong , Yuto Ashida , Masahito Ueda

The first law of thermodynamics imposes not just a constraint on the energy-content of systems in extreme quantum regimes, but also symmetry-constraints related to the thermodynamic processing of quantum coherence. We show that this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Matteo Lostaglio , Kamil Korzekwa , David Jennings , Terry Rudolph

The uncertainty relation is a distinctive characteristic of quantum theory. The uncertainty is essentially rooted in quantum states. In this work we regard the uncertainty as an intrinsic property of quantum state and characterize it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Ming-Jing Zhao , Yuanhong Tao

The universal symmetry, or conservation, of complexity underlies any law or principle of system dynamics and describes the unceasing transformation of dynamic information into dynamic entropy as the unique way to conserve their sum, the…

General Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 Andrei P. Kirilyuk

The uncertainty principle is often interpreted by the tradeoff between the error of a measurement and the consequential disturbance to the followed ones, which originated long ago from Heisenberg himself but now falls into reexamination and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Yu-Xiang Zhang , Shengjun Wu , Zeng-Bing Chen

In classical thermodynamic processes the unavoidable presence of irreversibility, quantified by the entropy production, carries two energetic footprints: the reduction of extractable work from the optimal, reversible case, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 M. H. Mohammady , A. Aufféves , J. Anders

Criteria of measure quantifying quantum coherence, a unique property of quantum system, are proposed recently. In this paper, we first give an uncertainty-like expression relating the coherence and the entropy of quantum system. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Zhengjun Xi , Yongming Li , Heng Fan

Can quantum theory be applied on all scales? While there are many arguments for the universality of quantum theory, this question remains a subject of debate. It is unknown how far the existence of macroscopic irreversibility can be derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Maria Violaris

In quantum resource theories (QRTs), there exists evidences of intrinsic connections among different measures of quantum resources, including entanglement, coherence, quantum steering, and so on. However, building the relations among…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Dong-Dong Dong , Geng-Biao Wei , Xue-Ke Song , Dong Wang , Liu Ye

Unitarity is a pillar of quantum theory. Nevertheless, it is also a source of several of its conceptual problems. We note that in a world where measurements are relational, as is the case in gravitation, quantum mechanics exhibits a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rodolfo Gambini , Rafael Porto , Jorge Pullin

Symmetries are widely used in modeling quantum systems but they do not contribute in postulates of quantum mechanics. Here we argue that logical, mathematical, and observational evidence require that symmetry should be considered as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Houri Ziaeepour

We examine the transmission of quantum particles (phonons, electrons, and photons) across interfaces, identifying universal patterns in diverse physical scenarios. Starting with classical wave equations, we quantize them and derive kinetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-02 A. P. Meilakhs

Loschmidt's paradox asks why macroscopic irreversibility is universal despite the time-reversal symmetry of microscopic dynamics. We argue that irreversibility is not a property of the dynamics but of accessibility: chaotic evolution drives…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Ira Wolfson

Given a quantum system consisting of many parts, we show that symmetry of the system's state, i.e., invariance under swappings of the subsystems, implies that almost all of its parts are virtually identical and independent of each other.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Renato Renner

Quantum coherence quantifies the amount of superposition in a quantum system, and is the reason and resource behind several phenomena and technologies. It depends on the natural basis in which the quantum state of the system is expressed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Ingita Banerjee , Kornikar Sen , Chirag Srivastava , Ujjwal Sen

Quantum coherence is the most fundamental of all quantum quantifiers, underlying other well-known quantities such as entanglement, quantum discord, and Bell correlations. It can be distributed in a multipartite system in various ways -- for…