Detecting coherence via spectrum estimation

Xiao-Dong Yu and Otfried Gühne
Phys. Rev. A 99, 062310 – Published 10 June 2019

Abstract

Coherence is a basic phenomenon in quantum mechanics and considered to be an essential resource in quantum information processing. Although the quantification of coherence has attracted a lot of interest, the lack of efficient methods to measure the coherence in experiments limits the applications. We address this problem by introducing an experiment-friendly method for coherence and spectrum estimation. This method is based on the theory of majorization and can not only be used to prove the presence of coherence, but also result in a rather precise lower bound of the amount of coherence. As an illustration, we show how to characterize the freezing phenomenon of coherence with only two local measurements for any N-qubit quantum systems. Our approach also has other applications in quantum information processing, such as the characterization of distillability and entanglement transformations.

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  • Received 10 September 2018
  • Revised 27 January 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.062310

©2019 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Quantum Information, Science & Technology

Authors & Affiliations

Xiao-Dong Yu* and Otfried Gühne

  • Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät, Universität Siegen, Walter-Flex-Straße 3, 57068 Siegen, Germany

  • *xiao-dong.yu@uni-siegen.de
  • otfried.guehne@uni-siegen.de

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Vol. 99, Iss. 6 — June 2019

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