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A fundamental challenge in quantum resource theory is to establish operational interpretations by quantifying the advantage that quantum resources provide in specific tasks. Conventional resource theories, however, have inherent limitations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Sunho Kim , Chunhe Xiong , Junde Wu

Entropy is a measure of the randomness of a system. Estimating the entropy of a quantum state is a basic problem in quantum information. In this paper, we introduce a time-efficient quantum approach to estimating the von Neumann entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Qisheng Wang , Zhicheng Zhang

In quantum resource theories (QRTs) certain quantum states and operations are deemed more valuable than others. While the determination of the ``free'' elements is usually guided by the constraints of some experimental setup, this can make…

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 establish an operational theory of coherence (or of superposition) in quantum systems, by focusing on the optimal rate of performance of certain tasks. Namely, we introduce the two basic concepts - "coherence distillation" and "coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-25 Andreas Winter , Dong Yang

In this work, we show how the resource theory of nonstabilizerness quantifies the hardness of direct fidelity estimation protocols. In particular, the resources needed for a direct fidelity estimation conducted on generic states, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Lorenzo Leone , Salvatore F. E. Oliviero , Alioscia Hamma

We advance the characterization of complexity in quantum many-body systems by examining $W$-states embedded in a spin chain. Such states show an amount of non-stabilizerness or "magic" (measured as the Stabilizer R\'enyi Entropy -SRE-) that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 J. Odavić , T. Haug , G. Torre , A. Hamma , F. Franchini , S. M. Giampaolo

We develop two general approaches to characterising the manipulation of quantum states by means of probabilistic protocols constrained by the limitations of some quantum resource theory. First, we give a general necessary condition for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Bartosz Regula

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

Resource theories provide a general framework for the characterization of properties of physical systems in quantum mechanics and beyond. Here, we introduce methods for the quantification of resources in general probabilistic theories…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 Ludovico Lami , Bartosz Regula , Ryuji Takagi , Giovanni Ferrari

Quantum scrambling refers to the spread of local quantum information into the many degrees of freedom of a quantum system. In this work, we introduce a resource theory of scrambling which incorporates two mechanisms, "entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Roy J. Garcia , Kaifeng Bu , Arthur Jaffe

Recently, various non-classical properties of quantum states and channels have been characterized through an advantage they provide in specific quantum information tasks over their classical counterparts. Such advantage can be typically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Erkka Haapasalo , Tristan Kraft , Juha-Pekka Pellonpää , Roope Uola

The quantum relative entropy is known to play a key role in determining the asymptotic convertibility of quantum states in general resource-theoretic settings, often constituting the unique monotone that is relevant in the asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Bartosz Regula , Ludovico Lami , Mark M. Wilde

We propose a new family of error detecting stabilizer codes with an encoding rate 1/3 that permit a transversal implementation of the pi/8-rotation $T$ on all logical qubits. The new codes are used to construct protocols for distilling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-30 Sergey Bravyi , Jeongwan Haah

Classical simulation of quantum circuits plays a crucial role in validating quantum hardware and delineating the boundaries of quantum advantage. Among the most effective simulation techniques are those based on the stabilizer extent, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Giulio Camillo , Filipa C. R. Peres , Markus Heinrich , Juani Bermejo-Vega

Quantum many-body systems have been extensively studied from the perspective of quantum technology, and conversely, critical phenomena in such systems have been characterized by operationally relevant resources like entanglement. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-27 Saubhik Sarkar , Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Abolfazl Bayat

We show how to perform measurement-based quantum computing on qudits (high-dimensional quantum systems) using alternative resource states beyond the cluster state. Estimating overheads for gate decomposition, we find that generalizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Alena Romanova , Wolfgang Dür

Magic state distillation (MSD) is a purification protocol that plays a central role in fault tolerant quantum computation. Repeated iteration of the steps of a MSD protocol, generates pure single non-stabilizer states, or magic states, from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-11 Hussain Anwar , Earl T. Campbell , Dan E. Browne

We introduce Magic Secret Sharing (MSS), a quantum cryptographic primitive in which the secret is the computational capability of a quantum state rather than its classical description. In the resource theory of magic, non-stabilizer states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Soumyojyoti Dutta , Tushar

Nonstabilizerness, also known as magic, is a crucial resource for quantum computation. The growth in complexity of quantum processing units (QPUs) demands robust and scalable techniques for characterizing this resource. We introduce the…