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most citedUnitary-invariant witnesses of quantum imaginarity

41 citations · 76 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

quant-ph2026

Zeno-Assisted Quantum Heat Engines

Selma Memić, Rafael Wagner, Susana F. Huelga +1

Finite-time quantum heat engines (QHEs) typically extract less work than their quasistatic counterparts because fast driving generates coherences and non-adiabatic transitions duri…

quant-ph2026

Bargmann Scenarios

Rafael Wagner

Considerable effort has been devoted to developing techniques for witnessing and characterizing quantum resources that emerge from collective properties of a set of states. In this…

quant-ph2026

Commutativity from a single Bargmann invariant equality

Rafael Wagner, Ernesto F. Galvão

Noncommutativity of states and observables is a fundamental signature of quantum theory, and a minimal requirement for nonclassicality. We provide a universal necessary and suffici…

quant-ph2025

Measuring unitary invariants with the quantum switch

Pedro C. Azado, Rafael Wagner, Rui S. Barbosa +1

Bargmann invariants, multivariate traces of states, completely characterize any unitary-invariant property of a set of states. Unitary invariants enable the description of quantum…

quant-ph2025

Estimation of multivariate traces of states given partial classical information

Kyrylo Simonov, Rafael Wagner, Ernesto Galvão

Bargmann invariants of order , defined as multivariate traces of quantum states , are useful in applications ranging from quantum metrology to cert…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Certifying nonstabilizerness in quantum processors

Rafael Wagner, Filipa C. R. Peres, Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro +1

Nonstabilizerness, also known as magic, is a crucial resource for quantum computation. The growth in complexity of quantum processing units (QPUs) demands robust and scalable techn…

quant-ph2024★ 41 cited

Unitary-invariant witnesses of quantum imaginarity

Carlos Fernandes, Rafael Wagner, Leonardo Novo +1

Quantum theory is traditionally formulated using complex numbers. This imaginarity of quantum theory has been quantified as a resource with applications in discrimination tasks, ps…

quant-ph2023★ 31 cited

Experimental certification of contextuality, coherence and dimension in a programmable universal photonic processor

Taira Giordani, Rafael Wagner, Chiara Esposito +11

Quantum superposition of high-dimensional states enables both computational speed-up and security in cryptographic protocols. However, the exponential complexity of tomographic pro…