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Interplay between local quantum randomness and non-local information access

Xiao Yuan, Qi Zhao, Davide Girolami, Xiongfeng Ma

Published May 25, 2016• 2 citations
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Abstract

The peculiar uncertainty or randomness of quantum measurements stems from coherence, whose information-theoretic characterization is currently under investigation. Under the resource theory of coherence, it is interesting to investigate interpretations of coherence measures and the interplay with other quantum properties, such as quantum correlations and intrinsic randomness. Coherence can be viewed as the resource for the intrinsic randomness in the measurement outcomes of a state in the computational basis. We observed in our previous work that the coherence of formation, which measures the asymptotic coherence dilution rate, indeed quantifies the uncertainty of a (classical) correlated party about the system measurement outcome. In this work, we re-derive the result from a quantum point of view and then connect the intrinsic randomness to the relative entropy of coherence, another important coherence measure that quantifies the asymptotic distillable coherence. Even though there does not exist bound coherent states, these two intrinsic randomness quantified by coherence of formation and the relative entropy of coherence are different. Interestingly, we show that this gap is equal to the quantum discord, a general form of quantum correlations, in the state of the system of interest and the correlated party, after a local measurement on the former system.

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Abstract Quantum coherence characterizes the non-classical feature of a single party system with respect to a local basis. Based on a recently introduced resource framework, coherence can be regarded as a resource and be systematically manipulated and quantified. Operationally, coherence quantifies the intrinsic randomness of the outcome of the projective measurement in the system’s computational basis. However, such a relation is only proven when randomness is characterized by the von Neumann entropy. In this work, we consider several recently proposed coherence measures and relate them to the general uncertainties of the projective measurement outcome conditioned on all the other systems. Our work thus provides a unified framework for redefining several coherence measures via general conditional entropies. Based on the relation, we numerically calculate the coherence measures via semi-definite programming. Furthermore, we discuss the operational meaning of the unified definition. Our result highlights the close relation between single partite coherence and bipartite quantum correlation.
Quantum measurements can produce unpredictable randomness arising from the uncertainty principle. When measuring a state with von Neumann measurements, the intrinsic randomness can be quantified by the quantum coherence of the state on the measurement basis. Unlike projection measurements, there are additional and possibly hidden degrees of freedom in an apparatus for generic measurements. We propose an adversary scenario to characterize the intrinsic randomness of general measurements with arbitrary input states. Interestingly, we discover that certain measurements, including symmetric and information-complete ones, generate nonzero randomness for all states, which suggests a new approach for designing source-independent random number generators without state characterization. Furthermore, our results reveal that intrinsic randomness can quantify coherence under general measurements, which generalizes the result in the standard resource theory of state coherence.
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Quantum coherence and quantum correlations are important quantum resources for quantum computation and quantum information. In this paper, using entropy-based measures, we investigate the relationships between quantum correlated coherence, which is the coherence between subsystems, and two main kinds of quantum correlations as defined by quantum discord as well as quantum entanglement. In particular, we show that quantum discord and quantum entanglement can be well characterized by quantum correlated coherence. Moreover, we prove that the entanglement measure formulated by quantum correlated coherence is lower and upper bounded by the relative entropy of entanglement and the entanglement of formation, respectively, and equal to the relative entropy of entanglement for all the maximally correlated states.