Quantum resource theories
By Eric Chitambar, Gilad Gour. Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018
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Quantum resource theories (QRTs) offer a highly versatile and powerful framework for studying different phenomena in quantum physics. From quantum entanglement to quantum computation, resource theories can be used to quantify a desirable quantum effect, develop new protocols for its detection, and identify processes that optimize its use for a given application. Particularly, QRTs revolutionize the way we think about familiar properties of physical systems like entanglement, elevating them from just being interesting from a fundamental point of view to being useful in performing practical tasks. The basic methodology of a general QRT involves partitioning all quantum states into two groups, one consisting of free states and the other consisting of resource states. Accompanying the set of free states is a collection of free quantum operations arising from natural restrictions on physical systems, and that consists of all the physical processes allowed by the resource theory and which acts invariantly on the set of free states. The QRT then studies what information processing tasks become possible using the restricted operations. Despite the large degree of freedom in how one defines the free states and free operations, unexpected similarities emerge among different QRTs in terms of resource measures and resource convertibility. As a result, objects that appear quite distinct on the surface, such as entanglement and quantum reference frames, appear to have great similarity on a deeper structural level. In this article we review the general framework of a quantum resource theory, focusing on common structural features, operational tasks, and resource measures. To illustrate these concepts, an overview is provided on some of the more commonly studied QRTs in the literature.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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- Quantum Technologies Need a Quantum Energy Initiative (2021, positive): “Quantum thermodynamics was formalized as a new kind of resource theory [49], searching to exhibit the work value of quantum coherence [50–53] or quantum advantages in quantum heat engines [54–59].”
- Thermodynamic Unification of Optimal Transport: Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation, Minimum Dissipation, and Thermodynamic Speed Limits (2022, background): “In parallel, concepts from other fields, such as the resource theory [45, 46] and information geometry [47–49], have also been integrated into thermodynamics, generating new avenues of research and offering new tools for analyzing thermodynamic processes [50–58].”