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Manis Hazra

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Two novel pure-state coherence measures in quantifying coherence

In the resource theory of coherence, the quantification of quantum-state coherence is an important task. In this regard, the key ingredients are the various coherence monotones (or measures). There are few coherence-monotone classes that solely depend on other coherence measures defined for all the pure states; in other words, they rely on the pure state coherence measures (PSCM). Here, we set forth two such novel PSCMs, and validate each of them through the fulfillment of all four necessary conditions. In addition, we delve into the most recent (as per our knowledge) coherence-monotone class based on the innovative idea of quantifying coherence in terms of pure-state coherence, further redefine it, and, through the study of convexity under mixing, justify why this coherence monotone class cannot be treated as a coherence-measure class in general.

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Quantifying coherence with principal diagonal elements of density matrix

Being the key resource in quantum physics, the proper quantification of coherence is of utmost importance. Amid complex-looking functionals in quantifying coherence, we set forth a simple and easy-to-evaluate approach: Principal diagonal difference of coherence (C_PDD), which we prove to be non-negative, self-normalized, and monotonic (under any incoherent operation). To validate this theory, we thought of a fictitious two-qubit system (both interacting and non-interacting) and, through the laser pulse-system interaction (semi-classical approach), compare the coherence evolution of C_PDD with the relative entropy of coherence (C_(r.e)) and l_1-norm of coherence (C_(l_1 )), in a pure-state regime. The numerical results show that the response of C_PDD is better than the other two quantifiers. To the best of our knowledge, this letter is the first to show that a set of density-matrix diagonal elements carries complete information on the coherence (or superposition) of any pure quantum state.

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