Faithful extraction of quantum coherence
arXiv:1909.06407 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.101.042325
Abstract
Coherence, a strictly quantum phenomenon, has found many applications, from quantum information theory and thermodynamics to quantum foundations and biology. When physical constraints are taken into consideration creation of coherence in a system is usually impossible and must therefore be extracted from another system acting as a reservoir. In this article we present two faithful extraction protocols in the sense that the interaction involved between the system and reservoir is coherence preserving. As an example we implement both in the case where the reservoir is a quantum harmonic oscillator in a coherent and a squeezed state respectively, and study the limits of repeatable extraction. For a single extraction onto qubits it is demonstrated that, perhaps surprisingly, one of the protocols manages to outperform a previous method, known as catalytic coherence, which allows the creation of an extra amount of coherence between degenerate energy eigenstates of the combined system.
arXiv comment10 pages, 11 figures and subfigures, corrected spelling mistakes in math
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