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Given two pairs of quantum states, we want to decide if there exists a quantum channel that transforms one pair into the other. The theory of quantum statistical comparison and quantum relative majorization provides necessary and sufficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-29 Francesco Buscemi , David Sutter , Marco Tomamichel

Complex numbers are indispensable in quantum mechanics and the resource theory of imaginarity has been developed recently. In this paper, we propose a method to construct imaginary measures by real part states. Specifically, we propose an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Jingyan Liu , Yue Sun , Jianwei Xu , Ming-Jing Zhao

Alice and Bob are given an unknown initial state chosen from a set of pure quantum states. Their task is to transform the initial state to a corresponding final pure state using local operations only. We prove necessary and sufficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. F. Chau , Chi-Hang Fred Fung , Chi-Kwong Li , Edward Poon , Nung-Sing Sze

We review the basic idea behind resource theories, where we quantify quantum resources by specifying a restricted class of operations. This divides the state space into various sets, including states which are free (because they can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Michał Horodecki , Jonathan Oppenheim

From the perspective of resource-theoretic approach, this study explores the quantification of imaginary in quantum physics. We propose a well defined measure of imaginarity, the geometric-like measure of imaginarity. Compared with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Meng-Li Guo , Bo Li , Shao-Ming Fei

Quantum resource theories (QRTs) offer a highly versatile and powerful framework for studying different phenomena in quantum physics. From quantum entanglement to quantum computation, resource theories can be used to quantify a desirable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 Eric Chitambar , Gilad Gour

The preparation of quantum states, especially cooling, is a fundamental technology for nanoscale devices. The past decade has seen important results related to both the limits of state transformation and the limits to their efficiency --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Ralph Silva , Pharnam Bakhshinezhad , Fabien Clivaz

As quantum technologies advance, the ability to generate increasingly large quantum states has experienced rapid development. In this context, the verification and estimation of large entangled systems represents one of the main challenges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Joshua Morris , Valeria Saggio , Aleksandra Gočanin , Borivoje Dakić

The computational universality with an elementary gate set $\{H,CCZ\}$ can be transformed to the strict universality by using a maximally imaginary state $|+i\rangle$ and some non-imaginary ancillary qubits. From the viewpoint of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Yasuaki Nakayama , Yuki Takeuchi , Seiseki Akibue

The difficulty in manipulating quantum resources deterministically often necessitates the use of probabilistic protocols, but the characterization of their capabilities and limitations has been lacking. We develop a general approach to this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Bartosz Regula

Quantum theory makes the most accurate empirical predictions and yet it lacks simple, comprehensible physical principles from which the theory can be uniquely derived. A broad class of probabilistic theories exist which all share some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 Borivoje Dakic , Caslav Brukner

We introduce a reversible theory of exact entanglement manipulation by establishing a necessary and sufficient condition for state transfer under trace-preserving transformations that completely preserve the positivity of partial transpose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Xin Wang , Yu-Ao Chen , Lei Zhang , Chenghong Zhu

We develop two general approaches to characterising the manipulation of quantum states by means of probabilistic protocols constrained by the limitations of some quantum resource theory. First, we give a general necessary condition for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Bartosz Regula

Among the most fundamental questions in the manipulation of quantum resources such as entanglement is the possibility of reversibly transforming all resource states. The key consequence of this would be the identification of a unique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Bartosz Regula , Ludovico Lami

Resource theories are a generic approach used to manage any valuable resource, such as entanglement, purity, and asymmetry. Such frameworks are characterized by two main elements: a set of predefined (free) operations and states, that one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Nelly Ng , Mischa P. Woods

It is given a preliminary discussion on the ontic nature of quantum states to be intended as potentialities and on the central role of spin to be considered as the basic essence of quantum mechanical reality. The possible fundamental role…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elio Conte , Andrei Khrennikov , Joseph P. Zbilut

Quantum complexity is emerging as a key property of many-body systems, including black holes, topological materials, and early quantum computers. A state's complexity quantifies the number of computational gates required to prepare the…

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

Quantum mechanics put restriction on performing some task which we can do classically. One such restriction is that we cannot copy an arbitrary quantum state. This is known as No-cloning theorem. Although quantum mechanics forbid us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-11 Satyabrata Adhikari

We review and extend, in a self-contained way, the mathematical foundations of numerical simulation methods that are based on the use of random states. The power and versatility of this simulation technology is illustrated by calculations…