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Excitation energy transfer in light-harvesting aggregates is highly efficient, yet whether quantum coherence plays an operational role in transport remains debated. A central challenge is that coherence is usually inferred from…

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Quantum coherence is a key resource in quantum information processing scenarios, and quantifying coherence is an important task for both quantum foundation and quantum technology. However, until now, all most of coherence measures are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Wei-Chen Wang , Mao-Fa Fang , Min Yu

Quantum coherence is a basic feature of quantum physics. Combined with tensor product structure of state space, it gives rise to the novel concepts such as entanglement and quantum correlations, which play a crucial role in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Kaifeng Bu , Asutosh Kumar , Lin Zhang , Junde Wu

Quantum coherence, the ability to control the phases in superposition states is a resource, and it is of crucial importance, therefore, to understand how it is consumed in use. It has been suggested that catalytic coherence is possible,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Joan A. Vaccaro , Sarah Croke , Stephen M. Barnett

From an operational perspective, quantumness characterizes the exotic behavior in a physical process which cannot be explained with Newtonian physics. There are several widely used measures of quantumness, including coherence, discord, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Xiao Yuan , Hongyi Zhou , Mile Gu , Xiongfeng Ma

The thermodynamics of quantum systems driven out of equilibrium has attracted increasing attention in last the decade, in connection with quantum information and statistical physics, and with a focus on non-classical signatures. While a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Gonzalo Manzano , Roberta Zambrini

Quantum coherence characterizes the non-classical feature of a single party system with respect to a local basis. Based on a recently introduced resource framework, coherence can be regarded as a resource and be systematically manipulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Yunchao Liu , Qi Zhao , Xiao Yuan

Since quantum coherence is an undoubted characteristic trait of quantum physics, the quantification and application of quantum coherence has been one of the long-standing central topics in quantum information science. Within the framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Yao Yao , G. H. Dong , Li Ge , Mo Li , C. P. Sun

The quantum speed limit indicates the maximal evolution speed of the quantum system. In this work, we determine speed limits on the informational measures, namely the von Neumann entropy, maximal information, and coherence of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 Brij Mohan , Siddhartha Das , Arun Kumar Pati

Quantum asymmetry and coherence are genuinely quantum resources that are essential to realize quantum advantage in information technologies. However, all quantum processes are fundamentally constrained by quantum speed limits, which raises…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Agung Budiyono , Michael Moody , Hadyan L. Prihadi , Rafika Rahmawati , Sebastian Deffner

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

There are many striking phenomena which are attributed to ``quantum coherence''. It is natural to wonder if there are new quantum coherence effects waiting to be discovered which could lead to interesting results and perhaps even practical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Andreas Albrecht

The development of quantum walks in the context of quantum computation, as generalisations of random walk techniques, led rapidly to several new quantum algorithms. These all follow unitary quantum evolution, apart from the final…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-02 Viv Kendon

As a quantum resource, quantum coherence plays an important role in modern physics. Many coherence measures and their relations with entanglement have been proposed, and the dynamics of entanglement has been experimentally studied. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Yi Zheng , Cheng-Jie Zhang , Zheng-Hao Liu , Jian-Wei Shao , Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

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

One of the fundamental features of quantum mechanics is the superposition principle, a manifestation of which is embodied in quantum coherence. Coherence of a quantum state is invariably defined with respect to a preferred set of pointer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Chirag Srivastava , Sreetama Das , Ujjwal Sen

The coherence of an individual quantum state can be meaningfully discussed only when referring to a preferred basis. This arbitrariness can however be lifted when considering sets of quantum states. Here we introduce the concept of set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Sébastien Designolle , Roope Uola , Kimmo Luoma , Nicolas Brunner

The resource theory of coherence studies the operational value of superpositions in quantum technologies. A key question in this theory concerns the efficiency of manipulation and inter-conversion of the resource. Here we solve this…

Quantum entanglement and coherence are two fundamental resources for quantum information processing. Recent results clearly demonstrate their relevance in quantum technological tasks, including quantum communication and quantum algorithms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-16 Anurag Anshu , Rahul Jain , Alexander Streltsov

The recently established resource theory of quantum coherence allows for a quantitative understanding of the superposition principle, with applications reaching from quantum computing to quantum biology. While different quantifiers of…