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The nonclassicality of quantum states is a fundamental resource for quantum technologies and quantum information tasks in general. In particular, a pivotal aspect of quantum states lies in their coherence properties, encoded in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Luca Innocenti , Lukas Lachman , Radim Filip

We provide a theory independent framework to quantify coherence. In comparison with Bell's theory independent approach to quantum nonlocality, we characterize a general coherence phenomenon with statistics arising from sequential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-02 Liang-Liang Sun , Fei-Lei Xiong , Sixia Yu , Zeng-Bing Chen

Quantum coherence quantifies the amount of superposition a quantum state can have in a given basis. Since there is a difference in the structure of eigenstates of the ergodic and many-body localized systems, we expect them also to differ in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-29 Sayandip Dhara , Alioscia Hamma , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

The notion of a macroscopic quantum state must be pinned down in order to assess how well experiments probe the large-scale limits of quantum mechanics. However, the issue of quantifying so-called quantum macroscopicity is fraught with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Benjamin Yadin , Matteo Fadel

Quantum coherence, which quantifies the superposition properties of a quantum state, plays an indispensable role in quantum resource theory. A recent theoretical work [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{116}, 070402 (2016)] studied the manipulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 Kang-Da Wu , Zhibo Hou , Han-Sen Zhong , Yuan Yuan , Guo-Yong Xiang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

By using relative entropy of coherence, we characterize the coherence gain induced by some quantum evolutions, including the cohering power of unitary operations and the decohering power of quantum operations. We find that the cohering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-28 Zhengjun Xi , Mingliang Hu , Yongming Li , Heng Fan

The dynamics of quantum phase transitions poses one of the most challenging problems in modern many-body physics. Here, we study a prototypical example in a clean and well-controlled ultracold atom setup by observing the emergence of…

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

Quantum coherence is an important quantum resource and it is intimately related to various research fields. The geometric coherence is a coherence measure both operationally and geometrically. We study the trade-off relation of geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Bingyu Hu , Ming-Jing Zhao

Coherence is a fundamental notion in quantum mechanics, defined relative to a reference basis. As such, it does not necessarily reveal the locality of interactions nor takes into account the accessible operations in a composite quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Alioscia Hamma , Georgios Styliaris , Paolo Zanardi

It is widely known that `collapse of the wave function' on a quantum system A may be brought about by an interaction with another quantum system B. We will prove that this is not just a possible, but a necessary consequence of information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bas Janssens

Quantum coherence is one of the clearest departures from classical physics, exhibited when a system is in a superposition of different basis states. Here the coherent superposition of three motional Fock states of a single trapped ion is…

The concept of quantum coherence, including various ways to quantify the degree of coherence with respect to the prescribed basis, is currently the subject of active research. The complementarity of quantum coherence in different bases was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-08 Alexey E. Rastegin

Quantum coherence is a key element in topical research on quantum resource theories and a primary facilitator for design and implementation of quantum technologies. However, the resourcefulness of quantum coherence is severely restricted by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-01 Uttam Singh , Manabendra Nath Bera , Himadri Shekhar Dhar , Arun Kumar Pati

Quantum coherence, as a direct manifestation of the quantum superposition principle, is a crucial resource in quantum information processing. Block coherence resource theory generalizes the traditional coherence framework by defining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiangyu Chen , Qiang Lei

Quantifying coherence is a key task in both quantum mechanical theory and practical applications. Here, a reliable quantum coherence measure is presented by utilizing the quantum skew information of the state of interest subject to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Chang-shui Yu

Quantum coherence (QCh) is considered to be a key ingredient in quantum resource theories and also plays a pivotal role in the design and implementation of various information processing tasks. Consequently, it becomes important for us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Indranil Chakrabarty , Udit Kamal Sharma , Manish Kumar Shukla

Quantum coherence profoundly alters classical thermodynamic expectations by modifying the structure and accessibility of probability distributions. Classically, transitions to lower-entropy states (local second-law violations) are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Andrei Tudor Patrascu

Quantum coherence is a fundamental feature of quantum mechanics and an underlying requirement for most quantum information tasks. In the resource theory of coherence, incoherent states are diagonal with respect to a fixed orthonormal basis,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Felix Bischof , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß

A thought experiment is discussed to clarify the concept of decoherence. Superposition of states consisting of ground state of a single hydrogen atom and its excited state after a huge amount of time is discussed to show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 Shunichi Muto