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Measurement incompatibility stipulates the existence of quantum measurements that cannot be carried out simultaneously on single systems. We show that the set of input-output probabilities obtained from d-dimensional classical systems…

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We propose an alternative framework for quantifying coherence. The framework is based on a natural property of coherence, the additivity of coherence for subspace-independent states, which is described by an operation-independent equality…

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In this paper, we investigate the interference engineering of the open quantum system, where the environment is made indefinite either through the use of an interferometer or the introduction of auxiliary qubits. The environments are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 He Wang , Jin Wang

This is a review devoted to the complementarity-contextuality interplay with connection to the Bell inequalities. Starting discussion with complementarity, we point out to contextuality as its seed. {\it Bohr-contextuality} is dependence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Andrei Khrennikov

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 contextuality is a nonintuitive property of quantum mechanics, that distinguishes it from any classical theory. A complementary quantum property is quantum nonlocality, which is an essential resource for many quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Shaham , H. S. Eisenberg

Nowadays contextuality is the hotest topic of quantum foundations and, especially, foundations of quantum information theory. This notion is characterized by the huge diversity of approaches and interpretations. One of the strongest trends…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Andrei Khrennikov

A major signature of quantum mechanics beyond classical physics is coherence, the existence of superposition states. The recently developed resource theory of quantum coherence allows the formalisation of incoherent operations -- those…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-10 Benjamin Yadin , Jiajun Ma , Davide Girolami , Mile Gu , Vlatko Vedral

Quantum contextuality is the notion that certain measurement scenarios do not admit a global description of their statistics and has been implicated as the source of quantum advantage in a number of quantum information protocols. It has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Philip A. LeMaitre

Contextuality means non-existence of a joint distribution for random variables recorded under mutually incompatible conditions, subject to certain constraints imposed on how the identity of these variables may change across these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov , Janne V. Kujala

Contextuality is a fundamental non-classical property of quantum theory, which has recently been proven to be a key resource for achieving quantum speed-ups in some leading models of quantum computation. However, which of the forms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Piers Lillystone , Joel J. Wallman , Joseph Emerson

Based on the theory of quantum mechanics, intrinsic randomness in measurement distinguishes quantum effects from classical ones. From the perspective of states, this quantum feature can be summarized as coherence or superposition in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-03 Xiao Yuan , Hongyi Zhou , Zhu Cao , Xiongfeng Ma

Quantum theory departs from classical probabilistic theories in foundational ways. These departures--termed quantumness here--power quantum information and computation. This thesis charts the role of discrete structures in assessing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Ravi Kunjwal

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

The concept of compatibility originally emerged as a synonym for the commutativity of observables and later evolved into the notion of measurement compatibility. In any case, however, it has remained predominantly algebraic in nature, tied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Mariana Storrer , Patrick Lima , Ana C. S. Costa , Sebastião Pádua , Renato M. Angelo

Quantum coherence and quantum correlations are of fundamental and practical significance for the development of quantum mechanics.They are also cornerstones of quantum computation and quantum communication theory. Searching physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Ming-Liang Hu , Xueyuan Hu , Jie-Ci Wang , Yi Peng , Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan

Quantum contextuality represents a fundamental form of nonclassicality in quantum mechanics. To provide a more complete characterization of nonclassical properties in quantum systems, we adopt a logical perspective and propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Songyi Liu , Yongjun Wang , Baoshan Wang , Chang He , Jincheng Wang

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 metrology seeks to leverage the richness of quantum systems for making better measurements than are possible using only classical resources in order to gain a ``quantum advantage''. Quantum metrology schemes must also be resilient…

Quantum physics holds the promise of enabling certain tasks with better performance than possible when only classical resources are employed. The quantum phenomena present in many experiments signify nonclassical behavior, but do not always…