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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

It is a fundamental question that why quantum mechanics uses complex numbers instead of only real numbers. To address this topic, recently, a rigorous resource theory for the imaginarity of quantum states were established, and several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Jianwei Xu

Complex numbers are widely used in quantum physics and are indispensable components for describing quantum systems and their dynamical behavior. The resource theory of imaginarity has been built recently, enabling a systematic research of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Shuanping Du , Zhaofang Bai

Complex numbers are theoretically proved and experimentally confirmed as necessary in quantum mechanics and quantum information, and a resource theory of imaginarity of quantum states has been established. In this work, we establish a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Chuanfa Wu , Zhaoqi Wu

The use of imaginary numbers in modelling quantum mechanical systems encompasses the wave-like nature of quantum states. Here we introduce a resource theoretic framework for imaginarity, where the free states are taken to be those with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Alexander Hickey , Gilad Gour

The recently introduced resource theory of imaginarity facilitates a systematic investigation into the role of complex numbers in quantum mechanics and quantum information theory. In this work, we propose well-defined measures of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Meng-Li Guo , Si-Yin Huang , Bo Li , Shao-Ming Fei

Complex numbers are widely used in both classical and quantum physics, and are indispensable components for describing quantum systems and their dynamical behavior. Recently, the resource theory of imaginarity has been introduced, allowing…

Quantum theory is traditionally formulated using complex numbers. This imaginarity of quantum theory has been quantified as a resource with applications in discrimination tasks, pseudorandomness generation, and quantum metrology. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Carlos Fernandes , Rafael Wagner , Leonardo Novo , Ernesto F. Galvão

Complex numbers are widely used in both classical and quantum physics, and play an important role in describing quantum systems and their dynamical behavior. In this paper we study several measures of imaginarity of quantum states in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Qiang Chen , Ting Gao , Fengli Yan

In this paper, we investigate the decay behaviors of three imaginarity-related metrics, specifically the $l_1$-norm-based imaginarity measure, imaginarity robustness, and imaginarity relative entropy, for arbitrary single-qubit pure initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Yue Han , Naihong Hu

It has been a long-standing debate that why quantum mechanics uses complex numbers but not only real numbers. To address this topic, in recent years, the imaginarity theory has been developed in the way of quantum resource theory. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Jianwei Xu

The resource-theoretic frameworks for quantum imaginarity have been developed in recent years. Within these frameworks, many imaginarity measures for finite-dimensional systems have been proposed. However, for imaginarity of Gaussian states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Ting Zhang , Jinchuan Hou , Xiaofei Qi

We define the geometric measure of mixing of quantum state as a minimal Hilbert-Schmidt distance between the mixed state and a set of pure states. An explicit expression for the geometric measure is obtained. It is interesting that this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 H. P. Laba , V. M. Tkachuk

One of the biggest problems in the theory of quantum information is the quantification of amount of entanglement in an arbitrary multipartite mixed state. Different axiomatic and operational measures were proposed so far. In this work we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Streltsov

The uncertainty relation is a distinctive characteristic of quantum theory. The uncertainty is essentially rooted in quantum states. In this work we regard the uncertainty as an intrinsic property of quantum state and characterize it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Ming-Jing Zhao , Yuanhong Tao

Resource theory of imaginarity provides a useful framework to understand the role of complex numbers, which are essential in the formulation of quantum mechanics, in a mathematically rigorous way. In the first part of this article, we study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Tulja Varun Kondra , Chandan Datta , Alexander Streltsov

Probabilistic quantum state transformations can be characterized by the degree of state separation they provide. This, in turn, sets limits on the success rate of these transformations. We consider optimum state separation of two known pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Emilio Bagan , Vadim Yerokhin , Andi Shehu , Edgar Feldman , Janos A. Bergou

Geometric quantum mechanics, through its differential-geometric underpinning, provides additional tools of analysis and interpretation that bring quantum mechanics closer to classical mechanics: state spaces in both are equipped with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Fabio Anza , James P. Crutchfield

The resource theory of imaginarity studies the operational value of imaginary parts in quantum states, operations, and measurements. Here we introduce and study the distillation and conversion of imaginarity in distributed scenario. This…

We investigate the trade-off relations between imaginarity and mixedness in arbitrary $d$-dimensional quantum systems. For given mixedness, a quantum state with maximum imaginarity is defined to be a "maximally imaginary mixed state"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Bin Chen , Shao-Ming Fei
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