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Zhengjun Xi

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arXiv2020

Quantifying quantum non-Markovianity based on quantum coherence via skew information

Based on the nonincreasing property of quantum coherence via skew information under incoherent completely positive and trace-preserving maps, we propose a non-Markovianity measure for open quantum processes. As applications, by applying the proposed measure to some typical noisy channels, we find that it is equivalent to the three previous measures of non-Markovianity for phase damping and amplitude damping channels, i.e., the measures based on the quantum trace distance, dynamical divisibility, and quantum mutual information. For the random unitary channel, it is equivalent to the non-Markovianity measure based on $l_1$ norm of coherence for a class of output states and it is incompletely equivalent to the measure based on dynamical divisibility. We also use the modified Tsallis relative $α$ entropy of coherence to detect the non-Markovianity of dynamics of quantum open systems, the results show that the modified Tsallis relative $α$ entropy of coherence are more comfortable than the original Tsallis relative $α$ entropy of coherence for small $α$.

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arXiv2019

Experimental demonstration of one-shot coherence distillation: High-dimensional state conversions

We experimentally investigate problems of one-shot coherence distillation [Regula, Fang, Wang, and Adesso, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 010401 (2018)]. Based on a set of optical devices, we design a type of strictly incoherent operation (SIO), which is applicable in high-dimensional cases and can be applied to accomplish the transformations from higher-dimensional states to lower-dimensional states. Furthermore, a relatively complete process of the one-shot coherence distillation is experimentally demonstrated for three- and four-dimensional input states. Experimental data reveal an interesting result: higher coherence distillation rates (but defective) can be reached by tolerating a larger error. Our finding paves a fresh way in the experimental investigation of quantum coherence conversions through various incoherent operations.

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arXiv2019

Epsilon-smooth measure of coherence

In this paper, by minimizing the coherence quantifiers over all states in an $ε$ ball around a given state, we define a generalized smooth quantifier, called the $ε$-smooth measure of coherence. We use it to estimate the difference between the expected state and the actually prepared state and quantify quantum coherence contained in an actually prepared state, and it can been interpreted as the minimal coherence guaranteed to present in an $ε$ ball around given quantum state. We find that the $ε$-smooth measure of any coherence monotone is still a coherence monotone, but it does not satisfy monotonicity on average under incoherent operations. We show the $ε$-smooth measure of coherence is continuous even if the original coherence quantifier is not. We also study the $ε$-smooth measure of distance-based coherence quantifiers, and some interesting properties are given. Moreover, we discuss the dual form of the $ε$-smooth measure of coherence by maximizing over all states in an $ε$ ball around the given state and show that the dual $ε$-smooth measure of coherence provides an upper bound of one-shot coherence distillation.

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arXiv2018

Coherence measure: Logarithmic coherence number

We introduce a measure of coherence, which is extended from the coherence rank via the standard convex roof construction, we call it the logarithmic coherence number. This approach is parallel to the Schmidt measure in entanglement theory, We study some interesting properties of the logarithmic coherence number, and show that this quantifier can be considered as a proper coherence measure. We also find that the logarithmic coherence number can be calculated exactly for a large class of states. We give the relationship between coherence and entanglement in bipartite system, and our results are generalized to multipartite setting. Finally, we find that the creation of entanglement with bipartite incoherent operations is bounded by the logarithmic coherence number of the initial system during the process.

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arXiv2017

Coherence distribution in multipartite systems

This paper examines the coherence in multipartite systems. We first discuss the distribution of total coherence in a given multipartite quantum state into discord between subsystems and coherent dissonance in each individual subsystem, using the relative entropy as a distance measure. Then we give some trade-off relations between various types of coherence and discord within a bipartite system,and extend these results to the multipartite setting. Finally, the change of coherence in entanglement distribution is studied.

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arXiv2017

Quantum coherence quantifiers based on the Rényi $α$-relative entropy

The resource theories of quantum coherence attract a lot of attention in recent years. Especially, the monotonicity property plays a crucial role here. In this paper we investigate the monotonicity property for the coherence measures induced by the Rényi $α$-relative entropy which present in [Phys. Rev. A 94, 052336, 2016]. We show that the Rényi $α$-relative entropy of coherence does not in general satisfy the monotonicity requirement under the subselection of measurements condition and it also does not satisfy the extension of monotonicity requirement which presents in [Phys. Rev. A 93, 032136, 2016]. Due to the Rényi $α$-relative entropy of coherence can act as a coherence monotone quantifier, we examine the trade-off relations between coherence and mixedness. Finally, some properties for the single qubit of Rényi $2$-relative entropy of coherence are derived.

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arXiv2016

Entropic characterization of coherence in quantum evolutions

By using relative entropy of coherence, we characterize the coherence gain induced by some quantum evolutions, including the cohering power of unitary operations and the decohering power of quantum operations. We find that the cohering power of the controlled unitary operation can be reduced to the cohering power of the corresponding unitary operation. We observe that the global coherence generated via incoherent operation applied to the system and an incoherent ancilla do not exceed the amount of coherence contained in the initial system. Our result provides a much tighter lower bound of coherence for the initial quantum state, and give an interesting chain of inequalities for coherence, quantum correlation and entanglement. We also strengthen the relations between quantum correlations and coherence.

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arXiv2015

Quantum coherence and correlations in quantum system

Criteria of measure quantifying quantum coherence, a unique property of quantum system, are proposed recently. In this paper, we first give an uncertainty-like expression relating the coherence and the entropy of quantum system. This finding allows us to discuss the relations between the entanglement and the coherence. Further, we discuss in detail the relations among the coherence, the discord and the deficit in the bipartite quantum system. We show that, the one-way quantum deficit is equal to the sum between quantum discord and the relative entropy of coherence of measured subsystem.

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arXiv2014

The Fidelity and Trace Norm Distances for Quantifying Coherence

We investigate the coherence measures induced by fidelity and trace norm, based on the recent proposed coherence quantification in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 140401, 2014]. We show that the fidelity of coherence does not in general satisfy the monotonicity requirement as a measure of coherence under the subselection of measurements condition. We find that the trace norm of coherence can act as a measure of coherence for qubit case and some special class of qutrits.

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arXiv2012

Necessary and sufficient condition for saturating the upper bound of quantum discord

We revisit the upper bound of quantum discord given by the von Neumann entropy of the measured subsystem. Using the Koashi-Winter relation, we obtain a trade-off between the amount of classical correlation and quantum discord in the tripartite pure states. The difference between the quantum discord and its upper bound is interpreted as a measure on the classical correlative capacity. Further, we give the explicit characterization of the quantum states saturating the upper bound of quantum discord, through the equality condition for the Araki-Lieb inequality. We also demonstrate that the saturating of the upper bound of quantum discord precludes any further correlation between the measured subsystem and the environment.

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arXiv2012

Measurement-induced nonlocality based on the relative entropy

We quantify the measurement-induced nonlocality [Luo and Fu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 120401 (2011)] from the perspective of the relative entropy. This quantification leads to an operational interpretation for the measurementinduced nonlocality, namely, it is the maximal entropy increase after the locally invariant measurements. The relative entropy of nonlocality is upper bounded by the entropy of the measured subsystem. We establish a relationship between the relative entropy of nonlocality and the geometric nonlocality based on the Hilbert- Schmidt norm, and show that it is equal to the maximal distillable entanglement. Several trade-off relations are obtained for tripartite pure states. We also give explicit expressions for the relative entropy of nonlocality for Bell-diagonal states.

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arXiv2012

The one-way unlocalizable quantum discord

In this paper, we present the concept of the one-way unlocalizable quantum discord and investigate its properties. We provide a polygamy inequality for it in tripartite pure quantum system of arbitrary dimension. Several tradeoff relations between the one-way unlocalizable quantum discord and other correlations are given. If the von Neumann measurement is on a part of the system, we give two expressions of the one-way unlocalizable quantum discord in terms of partial distillable entanglement and quantum disturbance. Finally, we also provide a lower bound for bipartite shareability of quantum correlation beyond entanglement in a tripartite system.

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arXiv2012

Pairwise Quantum Correlations for Superpositions of Dicke States

Pairwise correlation is really an important property for multi-qubit states. For the two-qubit X states extracted from Dicke states and their superposition states, we obtain a compact expression of the quantum discord by numerical check. We then apply the expression to discuss the quantum correlation of the reduced two-qubit states of Dicke states and their superpositions, and the results are compared with those obtained by entanglement of formation, which is a quantum entanglement measure.

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arXiv2011

Optimal measurements to access classical correlations of two-qubit states

We analyze the optimal measurements accessing classical correlations in arbitrary two-qubit states. Two-qubit states can be transformed into the canonical forms via local unitary operations. For the canonical forms, we investigate the probability distribution of the optimal measurements. The probability distribution of the optimal measurement is found to be centralized in the vicinity of a specific von Neumann measurement, which we call the maximal-correlation-direction measurement (MCDM). We prove that for the states with zero-discord and maximally mixed marginals, the MCDM is the very optimal measurement. Furthermore, we give an upper bound of quantum discord based on the MCDM, and investigate its performance for approximating the quantum discord.

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