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To describe certain facets of non-classicality, it is necessary to quantify properties of operations instead of states. This is the case if one wants to quantify how well an operation detects non-classicality, which is a necessary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Thomas Theurer , Dario Egloff , Lijian Zhang , Martin B. Plenio

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

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

In this work we investigate how to quantify the coherence of quantum measurements. First, we establish a resource theoretical framework to address the coherence of measurement and show that any statistical distance can be adopted to define…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Kyunghyun Baek , Adel Sohbi , Jaehak Lee , Jaewan Kim , Hyunchul Nha

Quantum coherence is one of the key features that fuels applications for which quantum mechanics exceeds the power of classical physics. This explains the considerable efforts that were undertaken to quantify coherence via quantum resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Michele Masini , Thomas Theurer , Martin B. Plenio

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…

We propose a novel approach to quantify quantum coherence which, contrary to the previous ones, does not rely on resource theory but rather on ontological considerations. In this framework, coherence is understood as the ability for a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Antoine Soulas

Coherence and correlation are key features of the quantum system. Quantifying these quantities are astounding task in the framework of resource theory of quantum information processing. In this article, we identify an affinity-based metric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-11 R. Muthuganesan , V. K. Chandrasekar , R. Sankaranarayanan

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…

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

Entanglement and coherence are fundamental properties of quantum systems, promising to power near future quantum technologies, such as quantum computation, quantum communication and quantum metrology. Yet, their quantification, rather than…

Recently, the basic concept of quantum coherence (or superposition) has gained a lot of renewed attention, after Baumgratz et al. [PRL 113:140401 (2014)], following \AA{}berg [arXiv:quant-ph/0612146], have proposed a resource theoretic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Tanmoy Biswas , María García Díaz , Andreas Winter

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

Quantifying coherence is a key task in both quantum mechanical theory and practical applications. Here, a reliable quantum coherence measure is presented by utilizing the quantum skew information of the state of interest subject to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Chang-shui Yu

The quantum mechanical measurement process is considered. A hypothetical concept of irrational dynamical variables is proposed. A possible definition of measurement is discussed along with a mathematical method to calculate experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-09 Christopher Engelhardt

Complex numbers play a pivotal role in both mathematics and physics, particularly in quantum mechanics, and are extensively utilized to depict the behavior of microscopic particles. Recognizing the significance of complex numbers, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Chuanfa Wu , Zhaoqi Wu

Quantum coherence is a critical resource for many operational tasks. Understanding how to quantify and manipulate it also promises to have applications for a diverse set of problems in theoretical physics. For certain applications, however,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Iman Marvian , Robert W. Spekkens

Quantifying coherence is an essential endeavor for both quantum foundations and quantum technologies. In this paper, we put forward a quantitative measure of coherence by following the axiomatic definition of coherence measures introduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 C. L. Liu , Da-Jian Zhang , Xiao-Dong Yu , Qi-Ming Ding , Longjiang Liu

Quantum coherence, like entanglement, is a fundamental resource in quantum information. In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in formulating resource theory of coherence from a broader perspective. The notions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Sunho Kim , Chunhe Xiong , Asutosh Kumar , Guijun Zhang , Junde Wu

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