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Atomic nuclei are complex, quantum many-body systems whose structure manifests itself through intrinsic quantum states associated with different excitation modes or degrees of freedom. Collective modes (vibration and/or rotation) dominate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexis Diaz-Torres

Quantum coherence is one of the fundamental aspects distinguishing classical and quantum theories. Coherence between different energy eigenstates is particularly important, as it serves as a valuable resource under the law of energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Naoto Shiraishi , Ryuji Takagi

Entanglement is a fundamental resource in quantum information processing, yet understanding its manipulation and transformation remains a challenge. Many tasks rely on highly entangled pure states, but obtaining such states is often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Ray Ganardi , Tulja Varun Kondra , Alexander Streltsov

We find a necessary condition for subsystems to become entangled after a quantum reference frame transformation. By distinguishing between quantum systems suitable to act as reference frames and physical systems described relative to these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 T. Rick Perche , Natália Salomé Móller , Guilherme Franzmann

Given two pairs of quantum states, a fundamental question in the resource theory of asymmetric distinguishability is to determine whether there exists a quantum channel converting one pair to the other. In this work, we reframe this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Soorya Rethinasamy , Mark M. Wilde

We construct a quantum reference frame, which can be used to approximately implement arbitrary unitary transformations on a system in the presence of any number of extensive conserved quantities, by absorbing any back action provided by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Sandu Popescu , Ana Belén Sainz , Anthony J. Short , Andreas Winter

There are various physical scenarios in which one can only implement operations with a certain symmetry. Under such restriction, a system in a symmetry-breaking state can be used as a catalyst, e.g. to prepare another system in a desired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-29 Iman Marvian , Seth Lloyd

Quantum catalytic transformations play important roles in the transformation of quantum entangled states under local operations and classical communications (LOCC). The key problems in catalytic transformations are the existence and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Yu-Min Guo , Yi Shen , Li-Jun Zhao , Lin Chen , Mengyao Hu , Zhiwei Wei , Shao-Ming Fei

In the classical regime, thermodynamic state transformations are governed by the free energy. This is also called as the second law of thermodynamics. Previous works showed that, access to a catalytic system allows us to restore the second…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Tulja Varun Kondra , Ray Ganardi , Alexander Streltsov

We consider the process of changing reference frames in the case where the reference frames are quantum systems. We find that, as part of this process, decoherence is necessarily induced on any quantum system described relative to these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Matthew C. Palmer , Florian Girelli , Stephen D. Bartlett

The model of open quantum systems is adopted to describe the non-local dynamical behaviour of qubits processed by entangling gates. The analysis gets to the conclusion that a distinction between evaluation steps and task-oriented computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 Stefano Bonzio , Paola Verrucchi

Determining whether a given state can be transformed into a target state using free operations is one of the fundamental questions in the study of resources theories. Free operations in resource theories can be enhanced by allowing for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Roberto Rubboli , Marco Tomamichel

Catalysts open up new reaction pathways that can speed up chemical reactions while not consuming the catalyst. A similar phenomenon has been discovered in quantum information science, where physical transformations become possible by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Patryk Lipka-Bartosik , Henrik Wilming , Nelly H. Y. Ng

Quantum information theory explores the limits of manipulating quantum states. While auxiliary systems often enhance information processing, a systematic explanation for their power has been lacking. This thesis addresses this gap by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Jeongrak Son

The imposition of symmetry upon the nature and structure of quantum observables has recently been extensively studied, with quantum reference frames playing a crucial role. In this paper, we extend this work to quantum transformations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-13 Takayuki Miyadera , Leon Loveridge

Catalysts speed up chemical reactions with no energy input and without being transformed in the process, therefore leaving equilibrium constants unchanged. Some catalysts, however, are much more efficient at accelerating one direction of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-06 Sara Mahdavi , Yann Sakref , Olivier Rivoire

Quantum reference frame transformations have been proposed to provide a means by which to translate descriptions of quantum systems relative to each other. At present, there are several differing frameworks for describing quantum reference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Esteban Castro-Ruiz , Thomas D. Galley , Leon Loveridge

This review summarizes and amplifies on recent investigations of coupled quantum dynamical systems in the short wavelength limit. We formulate and attempt to answer three fundamental questions: (i) What drives a dynamical quantum system to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-25 Ph. Jacquod , C. Petitjean

Quantum catalysis, the ability to enable previously impossible transformations by using auxiliary systems without degrading them, has emerged as a powerful tool in various resource theories. Although catalytically enabled state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Patryk Lipka-Bartosik , Kamil Korzekwa

The resource theory of quantum coherence is an important topic in quantum information science. Standard coherence distillation and dilution problems have been thoroughly studied. In this paper, we introduce and study the problem of one-shot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Senrui Chen , Xingjian Zhang , You Zhou , Qi Zhao