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We introduce a novel measure to quantify the non-Gaussian character of a quantum state: the quantum relative entropy between the state under examination and a reference Gaussian state. We analyze in details the properties of our measure and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-07 Marco G. Genoni , Matteo G. A. Paris , Konrad Banaszek

A three-body quantum correlation is calculated for two particles reflecting from a mirror. Correlated interference, a consequence of conservation of energy and momentum, occurs for states in which the order of reflection is indeterminate.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 F. V. Kowalski

We develop a rigorous connection between statistical properties of an interference pattern and the coherence properties of the underlying quantum state. With explicit examples, we demonstrate that even for inaccurate reconstructions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Kai von Prillwitz , Łukasz Rudnicki , Florian Mintert

Quantum state diffusion is a framework within which measurement may be described as the continuous and gradual collapse of a quantum system to an eigenstate as a result of interaction with its environment. The irreversible nature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Sophia M. Walls , Adam Bloss , Ian J. Ford

We discuss an interferometric approach to the estimation of quantum mechanical damping. We study specific classes of entangled and separable probe states consisting of superpositions of coherent states. Based on the assumption of limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hannah Venzl , Matthias Freyberger

This paper introduces the induced divergence, a new quantum divergence measure that replaces the hypothesis testing divergence in position-based decoding, simplifying the analysis of quantum communication and state redistribution while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Gilad Gour

Quantum correlation includes quantum entanglement and quantum discord. Both entanglement and discord have a common necessary condition--------quantum coherence or quantum superposition. In this paper, we attempt to give an alternative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Chang-shui Yu , Yang Zhang , Haiqing Zhao

When observations must come from incompatible devices and cannot be produced by compatible devices? This question motivates two integer valued quantifications of incompatibility, called incompatibility dimension and compatibility dimension.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Teiko Heinosaari , Takayuki Miyadera , Ryo Takakura

Entanglement, and quantum correlation, are precious resources for quantum technologies implementation based on quantum information science, such as, for instance, quantum communication, quantum computing, and quantum interferometry.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Arthur Vesperini , Ghofrane Bel-Hadj-Aissa , Roberto Franzosi

The concept of quantum coherence, including various ways to quantify the degree of coherence with respect to the prescribed basis, is currently the subject of active research. The complementarity of quantum coherence in different bases was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-08 Alexey E. Rastegin

Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental concept in quantum information theory, which refers to a class of techniques to identify a specific quantum state through a positive operator-valued measure. In this work, we investigate how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Hyunho Cha , Jungwoo Lee

In recent years considerable progress has been made towards developing a general theory of quantum entanglement. In particular, criteria to decide whether a given quantum state is entangled are of high theoretical and practical interest.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Shruti Aggarwal

The effect of quantum steering describes a possible action at a distance via local measurements. Whereas many attempts on characterizing steerability have been pursued, answering the question as to whether a given state is steerable or not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Ana C. S. Costa , Roope Uola , Otfried Gühne

This paper considers quantum communication involving an ensemble of states. Apart from the von Neumann entropy, it considers other measures one of which may be useful in obtaining information about an unknown pure state and another that may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Subhash Kak

Quantum relative entropy, a quantum generalization of the renowned Kullback-Leibler divergence, serves as a fundamental measure of the distinguishability between quantum states and plays a pivotal role in quantum information science.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Yuchen Lu , Kun Fang

We prove characterization theorems for relative entropy (also known as Kullback-Leibler divergence), q-logarithmic entropy (also known as Tsallis entropy), and q-logarithmic relative entropy. All three have been characterized axiomatically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Tom Leinster

We study the relation between violation of Bell inequalities and distillability properties of quantum states. Recently, D\"ur has shown that there are some multiparticle bound entangled states, non-separable and non-distillable, that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Acin

Quantum coherence is important in quantum mechanics, and its essence is from superposition principle. We study the coherence of any two pure states and that of their arbitrary superposition, and obtain the relationship between them. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Qiu-Ling Yue , Chao-Hua Yu , Feng Liu , Xiao-Li Wang , Fei Gao , Qiao-Yan Wen

Pivotal within quantum physics, the concept of quantum incompatibility is generally related to algebraic aspects of the formalism, such as commutation relations and unbiasedness of bases. Recently, the concept was identified as a resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 E. Martins , M. F. Savi , R. M. Angelo

Entropic quantifiers of states lie at the cornerstone of the quantum information theory. While a quantum state can be abstracted as a device that only has outputs, the most general quantum device is a quantum channel that also has inputs.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Xiao Yuan