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Quantum technologies exploit entanglement to revolutionize computing, measurements, and communications. This has stimulated the research in different areas of physics to engineer and manipulate fragile many-particle entangled states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Luca Pezzè , Augusto Smerzi , Markus K. Oberthaler , Roman Schmied , Philipp Treutlein

We consider reversible work extraction from identical quantum batteries. From an ensemble of individually passive states, work can be produced only via global unitary (and thus entangling) operations. However, we show here that there always…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Marcus Huber , Antonio Acín

Understanding the thermodynamic properties of quantum systems is essential for developing energy-efficient quantum technologies. In this regard, this work explores the application of quantum computational methods to study the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Lucas Galvão , Ana Clara das Neves , Maron Anka , Clebson Cruz

Some thermodynamical properties of solids, such as heat capacity and magnetic susceptibility, have recently been shown to be linked to the amount of entanglement in a solid. However this entanglement may appear a mere mathematical artifact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 G. De Chiara , C. Brukner , R. Fazio , G. M. Palma , V. Vedral

We present an optimal probabilistic protocol to distill quantum coherence. Inspired by a specific entanglement distillation protocol, our main result yields a strictly incoherent operation that produces one of a family of maximally coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Gokhan Torun , Ludovico Lami , Gerardo Adesso , Ali Yildiz

A measure of entanglement production by quantum operations is suggested. This measure is general, being valid for operations over pure states as well as over mixed states, for equilibrium as well as for nonequilibrium processes. The measure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

Quantum scrambling describes the spreading of local information into many degrees of freedom in quantum systems. This provides the conceptual connection among diverse phenomena ranging from thermalizing quantum dynamics to models of black…

Quantum entanglement is a key physical resource in quantum information processing that allows for performing basic quantum tasks such as teleportation and quantum key distribution, which are impossible in the classical world. Ever since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Xin Wang , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum algorithms could efficiently solve certain classically intractable problems by exploiting quantum parallelism. To date, whether the quantum entanglement is useful or not for quantum computing is still a question of debate. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 He-Liang Huang , Ashutosh K. Goswami , Wan-Su Bao , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Entanglement is a striking feature of quantum mechanics, and it has a key property called unextendibility. In this paper, we present a framework for quantifying and investigating the unextendibility of general bipartite quantum states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Kun Wang , Xin Wang , Mark M. Wilde

The speed of quantum computation is investigated through the time evolution of the speed of the orthogonality. The external field components for classical treatment beside the detuning and the coupling parameters for quantum treatment play…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Metwally , M. Abdel-Aty , M. Sebawe Abdalla

We introduce the idea of actually cooling quantum systems by means of incoherent thermal light, hence giving rise to a counter-intuitive mechanism of "cooling by heating". In this effect, the mere incoherent occupation of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 A. Mari , J. Eisert

The theory of quantum thermodynamics investigates how the concepts of heat, work, and temperature can be carried over to the quantum realm, where fluctuations and randomness are fundamentally unavoidable. Of particular practical relevance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-23 Patrick P. Potts

Monitored quantum systems evolve along stochastic trajectories correlated with the observer's knowledge of the system's state. Under such dynamics, certain quantum resources like entanglement may depend on the observer's state of knowledge.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Christian Carisch , Oded Zilberberg , Alessandro Romito

Considering a general microscopic model for a quantum measuring apparatus comprising a quantum probe coupled to a thermal bath, we analyze the energetic resources necessary for the realization of a quantum measurement, which includes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Camille L Latune , Cyril Elouard

The emergence of irreversibility in physical processes, despite the fundamentally reversible nature of quantum mechanics, remains an open question in physics. This thesis explores the intricate relationship between quantum mechanics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Alberto Rolandi

Quantum coherence associated with the superpositions of two different sets of eigenbasis vectors has been regarded as essential in thermodynamics. It is found that coherent factors can be determined by writing observables as an expansion in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-31 Jingyi Chen , Guozhen Su , Jincan Chen , Shanhe Su

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

We consider continuously monitored quantum systems and introduce definitions of work and heat along individual quantum trajectories that are valid for coherent superpositions of energy eigenstates. We use these quantities to extend the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Jose Joaquin Alonso , Eric Lutz , Alessandro Romito

Quantum thermal machines can generate steady-state entanglement by harvesting spontaneous interactions with local environments. However, using minimal resources and control, the entanglement is typically very noisy. Here, we study…