Quantum coherence with incomplete set of pointers and corresponding wave-particle duality
arXiv:2108.05849
Abstract
Quantum coherence quantifies the amount of superposition in a quantum system, and is the reason and resource behind several phenomena and technologies. It depends on the natural basis in which the quantum state of the system is expressed, which in turn hinges on the physical set-up being analyzed and utilized. While quantum coherence has hitherto been conceptualized by employing different categories of complete bases, there do exist interesting physical situations, where the natural basis is an incomplete one, an example being an interferometric set-up with the observer controlling only a certain fraction of all the slits. We introduce a quantification of quantum coherence with respect to an arbitrary incomplete basis for general quantum states, and develop the corresponding resource theory, identifying the free states and operations. Moreover, we obtain a complementarity relation between the so-defined quantum coherence and the which-path information in an interferometric set-up with several slits, of which only a section is in control of the observer or is accessible to her. This therefore provides us with another face of the wave-particle duality in quantum systems, demonstrating that the complementarity is functional in more general set-ups than thus far considered.
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