Robustness of Coherence: An Operational and Observable Measure of Quantum Coherence
Robustness of Coherence: An Operational and Observable Measure of Quantum Coherence
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DOI：
10.1103/physrevlett.116.150502
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发表时间：
2016-04-12
影响因子：
8.6
通讯作者：
Adesso, Gerardo
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作者：
Napoli, Carmine;Bromley, Thomas R.;Adesso, Gerardo
Quantifying coherence is an essential endeavor for both quantum foundations and quantum technologies. Here, the robustness of coherence is defined and proven to be a full monotone in the context of the recently introduced resource theories of quantum coherence. The measure is shown to be observable, as it can be recast as the expectation value of a coherence witness operator for any quantum state. The robustness of coherence is evaluated analytically on relevant classes of states, and an efficient semidefinite program that computes it on general states is given. An operational interpretation is finally provided: the robustness of coherence quantifies the advantage enabled by a quantum state in a phase discrimination task.
