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arXiv:1908.03863 · Communications in Theoretical Physics

Average coherence with respect to complementary measurements

Bin Chen, Shao-Ming Fei

Published Jan 1, 2021• 5 citations
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Abstract

Abstract We investigate the average coherence with respect to a complete set of complementary measurements. By using a Wigner–Yanase skew information-based coherence measure introduced in Luo and Sun (2017 Phys. Rev. A 96 , 022130), we evaluate the average coherence of a state with respect to any complete set of mutually unbiased measurements and general symmetric informationally complete measurements, respectively. We also establish analytically the relations among these average coherences.

DOI
10.1088/1572-9494/abc7b3

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