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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 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

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

In this paper, we introduce two measures for the resource theory of imaginarity. One is induced by $\alpha$--$z$--R\'enyi relative entropy and the other, defined for positive definite density matrices, is induced by Tsallis relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Xiangyu Chen , Qiang Lei

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

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…

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

From the perspective of resource-theoretic approach, this study explores the quantification of imaginary in quantum physics. We propose a well defined measure of imaginarity, the geometric-like measure of imaginarity. Compared with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Meng-Li Guo , Bo Li , Shao-Ming Fei

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…

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

A closed expression is derived for the amount of resource present in a quantum state as quantified by a distance measure based on the \emph{Tsallis relative entropy} introduced recently in \cite{Zhao2018}, for any resource theory whose set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Nikolaos K. Kollas

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

In this paper, we introduce the framework for quantifying the imaginarity of quantum channels. Besides, an alternative framework is given together to simplify the process of verifying the condition. We present three imaginarity measures of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Xiangyu Chen , Qiang Lei

The role of complex numbers in quantum theory extends beyond mathematical convenience, having recently been formalized as a resource under the framework of the resource theory of imaginarity. Operationally, imaginarity translates into using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Indranil Biswas , Subrata Bera , Ujjwal Sen , Indrani Chattopadhyay , Debasis Sarkar

The relative entropy between quantum states quantifies their distinguishability. The estimation of certain relative entropies has been investigated in the literature, e.g., the von Neumann relative entropy and sandwiched R\'enyi relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jinge Bao , Minbo Gao , Qisheng Wang

Complex numbers play an indispensable role in quantum mechanics and quantum information, as validated by both theoretical analysis and experimental verification. Since quantum information processing inherently relies on quantum channels,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Ting Zhang , Jinchuan Hou , Xiaofei Qi

Quantum circuit complexity quantifies the minimal number of gates needed to realize a unitary transformation and plays a central role in quantum computation. In this work, we investigate the complexity of quantum circuits through coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Linlin Ye , Zhaoqi Wu , Nanrun Zhou

Quantum entropy and skew information play important roles in quantum information science. They are defined by the trace of the positive operators so that the trace inequalities often have important roles to develop the mathematical theory…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-08-23 Shigeru Furuichi

Entropy measures quantify the amount of information and correlation present in a quantum system. In practice, when the quantum state is unknown and only copies thereof are available, one must resort to the estimation of such entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Ziv Goldfeld , Dhrumil Patel , Sreejith Sreekumar , Mark M. Wilde
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