Coherence-generating power deviation: Fluctuations and input selectivity beyond average coherence generation
Abstract
Coherence-generating power (CGP) tells how much coherence a quantum process produces on average from incoherent inputs, but an average can hide where that coherence comes from. We introduce the coherence-generating power deviation (CGPD), the standard deviation of the generated Hilbert--Schmidt coherence over the uniform simplex of incoherent states. CGPD turns coherence generation into a landscape: a small value signals robust production across input populations, whereas a large value reveals selective conversion of particular population imbalances. By representing unitary coherence generation as a quadratic response on population space, we obtain exact first and second moments in arbitrary finite dimension. We prove that every nontrivial unitary generator must fluctuate, and we separate this unavoidable isotropic fluctuation from excess anisotropy. The resulting distinction between average strength and input selectivity has direct consequences for benchmarking, reliability guarantees, input-ensemble susceptibility, and four-copy measurement protocols; it also extends naturally to unital quantum channels. Matched quantum-walk and quasiperiodic-transport examples show that topology and localization can leave CGP unchanged while substantially changing CGPD, revealing structure invisible to the mean alone.
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BibTeX
@misc{cho2026coherencegenerating,
title = {{Coherence-generating power deviation: Fluctuations and input selectivity beyond average coherence generation}},
author = {Kyoungho Cho and Jeongho Bang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.19046},
eprint = {2609.19046},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19046},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Coherence-generating power deviation: Fluctuations and input selectivity beyond average coherence generation
AU - Kyoungho Cho
AU - Jeongho Bang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.19046
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19046
AB - Coherence-generating power (CGP) tells how much coherence a quantum process produces on average from incoherent inputs, but an average can hide where that coherence comes from. We introduce the coherence-generating power deviation (CGPD), the standard deviation of the generated Hilbert--Schmidt coherence over the uniform simplex of incoherent states. CGPD turns coherence generation into a landscape: a small value signals robust production across input populations, whereas a large value reveals selective conversion of particular population imbalances. By representing unitary coherence generation as a quadratic response on population space, we obtain exact first and second moments in arbitrary finite dimension. We prove that every nontrivial unitary generator must fluctuate, and we separate this unavoidable isotropic fluctuation from excess anisotropy. The resulting distinction between average strength and input selectivity has direct consequences for benchmarking, reliability guarantees, input-ensemble susceptibility, and four-copy measurement protocols; it also extends naturally to unital quantum channels. Matched quantum-walk and quasiperiodic-transport examples show that topology and localization can leave CGP unchanged while substantially changing CGPD, revealing structure invisible to the mean alone.
ER -