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Quantifying coherence is an essential endeavour for both quantum foundations and quantum technologies. Here the robustness of coherence is defined and proven a full monotone in the context of the recently introduced resource theories of…

We theoretically investigate the quantum uncertainty in the beam width of transverse optical modes and, for this purpose, define a corresponding quantum operator. Single mode states are studied as well as multimode states with small quantum…

Quantum optics potentially offers an information channel from the Universe beyond the established ones of imaging and spectroscopy. All existing cameras and all spectrometers measure aspects of the first-order spatial and/or temporal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Dainis Dravins

Recent advances in quantum optics have highlighted the critical role of spatial propagation in controlling the quantum coherence of light beams. However, the evolution of quantum coherence for light beams undergoing fundamental optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Yuetao Chen , Gaiqing Chen , Jin Wang , Qiang Ma , Shoukang Chang , Shaoyan Gao

In this paper we deal with the problem of overcoming the intuitive definition of several color perception attributes by replacing them with novel mathematically rigorous ones. Our framework is a quantum-like color perception theory recently…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-18 Michel Berthier , Nicoletta Prencipe , Edoardo Provenzi

CONTENTS. 1.Introduction, 1.1 QCD ideas to be tested; 2. Coherence phenomena in QED, 2.1 Charge transparency, 2.2 Charge filtering, 2.3 Charge opacity; 3. Color transparency in perturbative QCD, 3.1 Coherence length in QCD, 3.2 Bjorken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 L. L. Frankfurt , G. A. Miller , M. Strikman

We present a brief review of the impact of the Heisenberg uncertainty relations on quantum optics. In particular we demonstrate how almost all coherent and nonclassical states of quantum optics can be derived from uncertainty relations.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. S. Agarwal

Coherent states have three main properties: coherence, overcompleteness and intrinsic geometrization. These unique properties play fundamental roles in field theory, especially, in the description of classical domains and quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei-Min Zhang

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

The modes of the electromagnetic field are solutions of Maxwell's equations taking into account the material boundary conditions. The field modes of classical optics - properly normalized - are also the mode functions of quantum optics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 Birgit Stiller , Ulrich Seyfarth , Gerd Leuchs

A new theoretical technique for understanding, analyzing and developing optical systems is presented. The approach is statistical in nature, where information about an object under investigation is discovered, by examining deviations from a…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-20 Damien P. Kelly

The basic notions related to coherence phenomena are formulated. Two types of coherence are described, state coherence and transition coherence. Useful characteristics for quantifying coherence are defined, such as coherence functions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Yukalov

Aspects of coherence and decoherence are analyzed within the optical Bloch equations. By rewriting the analytic solution in an alternate form, we are able to emphasize a number of unusual features: (a) despite the Markovian nature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Sanz , H. Han , P. Brumer

The primary consideration in developing new material platforms for quantum applications is to optimize coherence. Despite its importance, decoherence processes remains challenging to experimentally interrogate and quantify. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Albert Liu , Matthew W. Day , Steven T. Cundiff

The coherent superposition of states, in combination with the quantization of observables, represents one of the most fundamental features that mark the departure of quantum mechanics from the classical realm. Quantum coherence in many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Alexander Streltsov , Gerardo Adesso , Martin B. Plenio

In this paper, we argue that quantum coherence in a bipartite system can be contained either locally or in the correlations between the subsystems. The portion of quantum coherence contained within correlations can be viewed as a kind…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kok Chuan Tan , Hyukjoon Kwon , Chae-Yeun Park , Hyunseok Jeong

We study the consequences of the generalized Heisenberg uncertainty relation which admits a minimal uncertainty in length such as the case in a theory of quantum gravity. In particular, the theory of quantum harmonic oscillators arising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 P. Narayana Swamy

Non-classical states of light find applications in enhancing the performance of optical interferometric experiments, with notable example of gravitational wave-detectors. Still, the presence of decoherence hinders significantly the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-17 R. Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , M. Jarzyna , J. Kolodynski

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, coherence and Bell nonlocality have been individually examined through many experiments. In this Letter, we systematically characterize all of this quantumness in a unified manner. We first construct…

We introduce a coherence susceptibility method, based on the fact that it signals quantum fluctuations, for identifying quantum phase transitions, which are induced by quantum fluctuations. This method requires no prior knowledge of order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 Jin-Jun Chen , Jian Cui , Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan
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