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arXiv:2004.04536 · Physical Review Letters

Quantifying Dynamical Coherence with Dynamical Entanglement

Thomas Theurer, Saipriya Satyajit, Martin Bodo Plenio

Published Sep 25, 2020• 25 citations
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Abstract

Coherent superposition and entanglement are two fundamental aspects of nonclassicality. Here we provide a quantitative connection between the two on the level of operations by showing that the dynamical coherence of an operation upper bounds the dynamical entanglement that can be generated from it with the help of additional incoherent operations. In case a particular choice of monotones based on the relative entropy is used for the quantification of these dynamical resources, this bound can be achieved. In addition, we show that an analog to the entanglement potential exists on the level of operations and serves as a valid quantifier for dynamical coherence.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.125.130401

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Coherence is the most fundamental quantum feature of the nonclassical systems. The understanding of coherence within the resource theory has been attracting increasing interest among which the quantification of coherence is an essential ingredient. A satisfactory measure should meet certain standard criteria. It seems that the most crucial criterion should be the strong monotonicity, that is, average coherence doesn't increase under the (sub-selective) incoherent operations. Recently, the Tsallis relative ααα entropy [A. E. Rastegin, Phys. Rev. A \textbf{93}, 032136 (2016)] has been tried to quantify the coherence. But it was shown to violate the strong monotonicity, even though it can unambiguously distinguish the coherent and the incoherent states with the monotonicity. Here we establish a family of coherence quantifiers which are closely related to the Tsallis relative ααα entropy. It proves that this family of quantifiers satisfy all the standard criteria and particularly cover several typical coherence measures.
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