Robustness of asymmetry and coherence of quantum states
By Marco Piani, M. Cianciaruso, Thomas R. Bromley, Carmine Napoli, N. Johnston, Gerardo Adesso. 2016
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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.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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- Quantum coherence and geometric quantum discord (2017, background): “Alternatively, the RoC can also be defined as (Piani et al., 2016) CR(ρ) = min δ∈I {s ≥ 0|ρ ≤ (1 + s)δ}.”
- Operational one-to-one mapping between coherence and entanglement measures (2017, background): “When ρ is pure, it is known that CR(ρ) = Cl1 (ρ) [34,74].”