Robustness of asymmetry and coherence of quantum states

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Piani, Marco and Cianciaruso, Marco and Bromley, Thomas R. and Napoli, Carmine and Johnston, Nathaniel and Adesso, Gerardo (2016) Robustness of asymmetry and coherence of quantum states. Physical Review A, 93 (4). 042107. ISSN 1050-2947 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.042107)

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Abstract

Quantum states may exhibit asymmetry with respect to the action of a given group. Such an asymmetry of states can be considered as a resource in applications such as quantum metrology, and it is a concept that encompasses quantum coherence as a special case. We introduce explicitly and study the robustness of asymmetry, a quantifier of asymmetry of states that we prove to have many attractive properties, including efficient numerical computability via semidefinite programming, and an operational interpretation in a channel discrimination context. We also introduce the notion of asymmetry witnesses, whose measurement in a laboratory detects the presence of asymmetry. We prove that properly constrained asymmetry witnesses provide lower bounds to the robustness of asymmetry, which is shown to be a directly measurable quantity itself. We then focus our attention on coherence witnesses and the robustness of coherence, for which we prove a number of additional results; these include an analysis of its specific relevance in phase discrimination and quantum metrology, an analytical calculation of its value for a relevant class of quantum states, and tight bounds that relate it to another previously defined coherence monotone.

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Piani, Marco ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4698-9497, Cianciaruso, Marco, Bromley, Thomas R., Napoli, Carmine, Johnston, Nathaniel and Adesso, Gerardo;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:55826
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    12 April 2016
    Published
    23 February 2016
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:10 Mar 2016 12:15
    Last modified:16 Dec 2024 19:40
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/55826
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