• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 9, 2172 (2022)
Yi Zheng1、2、3, Cheng-Jie Zhang4、5、6、*, Zheng-Hao Liu1、2、3, Jian-Wei Shao4, Jin-Shi Xu1、2、3、7、*, Chuan-Feng Li1、2、3、8、*, and Guang-Can Guo1、2、3
Author Affiliations
  • 1CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of Chinahttps://ror.org/04c4dkn09, Hefei 230026, China
  • 2CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of Chinahttps://ror.org/04c4dkn09, Hefei 230026, China
  • 3Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of Chinahttps://ror.org/04c4dkn09, Hefei 230088, China
  • 4School of Physical Science and Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
  • 5State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
  • 6e-mail: zhangchengjie@nbu.edu.cn
  • 7e-mail: jsxu@ustc.edu.cn
  • 8e-mail: cfli@ustc.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.463829 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Yi Zheng, Cheng-Jie Zhang, Zheng-Hao Liu, Jian-Wei Shao, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo. Experimental verification of a coherence factorization law for quantum states[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(9): 2172 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    As a quantum resource, quantum coherence plays an important role in modern physics. Many coherence measures and their relations with entanglement have been proposed, and the dynamics of entanglement has been experimentally studied. However, the knowledge of general results for coherence dynamics in open systems is limited. Here we propose a coherence factorization law that describes the evolution of coherence passing through any noisy channels characterized by genuinely incoherent operations. We use photons to implement the quantum operations and experimentally verify the law for qubits and qutrits. Our work is a step toward understanding of the evolution of coherence when the system interacts with the environment, and will boost the study of more general laws of coherence.
    G(ρ)=dij|ρij|1d(d1),

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    G[Φ(ρ)]=G(ρ)G[Φ(|ψ+ψ+|)].

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    [Φ(ρ)]ij=dρij[Φ(|ψ+ψ+|)]ij=ρij[Φ(Jd)]ij

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    [Φ(Jd)]ij=n(KnJdKn)ij=nKn,iKn,j.

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    [Φ(ρ)]ij=n(KnρKn)ij=ρijnKn,iKn,j,

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    G=σx2+σy2,

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    Kn=(0Kn,2000Kn,3Kn,100)=(010001100)Kn.

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    K1=(1001ϵ),K2=(0ϵ00),

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    G˜(ρ)=min{pi,|ψi}ipiG(|ψψ|)

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    |λ1=(100)T,|λ2=(010)T,|λ3=(001)T,|λ4=12(110)T,|λ5=12(110)T,|λ6=12(i10)T,|λ7=12(i10)T,|λ8=12(101)T,|λ9=12(101)T,|λ10=12(i01)T,|λ11=12(i01)T,|λ12=12(011)T,|λ13=12(011)T,|λ14=12(0i1)T,|λ15=12(0i1)T.(A1)

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    Λ1=P5P4+0P3,Λ2=P7P6+0P3,Λ3=P1P2+0P3,Λ4=P9P8+0P2,Λ5=P11P10+0P2,Λ6=P13P12+0P1,Λ7=P15P14+0P1,Λ8=13P1+13P223P3,(A2)

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    ρ12=(Λ1iΛ2)/2,ρ13=(Λ4iΛ5)/2,ρ23=(Λ6iΛ7)/2.(A3)

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    Yi Zheng, Cheng-Jie Zhang, Zheng-Hao Liu, Jian-Wei Shao, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo. Experimental verification of a coherence factorization law for quantum states[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(9): 2172
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