Measure of set coherence
Abstract
Set coherence is a quantum resource for a set of states that characterizes whether a collection of quantum states contains coherence, namely whether these states fail to be simultaneously incoherent in a common basis. In this work, we show that the free operations of set coherence are common commutativity-preserving quantum channels, from which we then establish an axiomatic framework for set-coherence measure (SCM). Within this framework, we investigate the robustness based measures deduced by taking, respectively, the average, maximum, and sum of the single-state robustnesses over a common reference basis, where the first two were previously introduced in the literature and we check here whether they satisfy our SCM axioms. Consequently, we show that the averaged robustness is an SCM but it is neither unified nor complete, the maximal robustness is a unified SCM but is neither complete nor strongly superadditive, whereas the sum robustness is a complete SCM. Furthermore, we propose several classes of SCMs based on pairwise commutators. We show that the Schatten p-norm based SCMs are complete and strongly superadditive. We also find that the universal fourth-order Bargmann gap measure proposed in the literature is a complete and strongly superadditive quantifier of set coherence. Finally, we discuss the operational meaning of the SCM in the context of optimal approximate quantum broadcasting, and show that the amount of set coherence can closely reflect the performance of this task.
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BibTeX
@misc{panel2026measure,
title = {{Measure of set coherence}},
author = {Jiabo Panel and Yu Guo and Yuqin Wang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.34784},
eprint = {2610.34784},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.34784},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Measure of set coherence
AU - Jiabo Panel
AU - Yu Guo
AU - Yuqin Wang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/26
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.34784
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.34784
AB - Set coherence is a quantum resource for a set of states that characterizes whether a collection of quantum states contains coherence, namely whether these states fail to be simultaneously incoherent in a common basis. In this work, we show that the free operations of set coherence are common commutativity-preserving quantum channels, from which we then establish an axiomatic framework for set-coherence measure (SCM). Within this framework, we investigate the robustness based measures deduced by taking, respectively, the average, maximum, and sum of the single-state robustnesses over a common reference basis, where the first two were previously introduced in the literature and we check here whether they satisfy our SCM axioms. Consequently, we show that the averaged robustness is an SCM but it is neither unified nor complete, the maximal robustness is a unified SCM but is neither complete nor strongly superadditive, whereas the sum robustness is a complete SCM. Furthermore, we propose several classes of SCMs based on pairwise commutators. We show that the Schatten p-norm based SCMs are complete and strongly superadditive. We also find that the universal fourth-order Bargmann gap measure proposed in the literature is a complete and strongly superadditive quantifier of set coherence. Finally, we discuss the operational meaning of the SCM in the context of optimal approximate quantum broadcasting, and show that the amount of set coherence can closely reflect the performance of this task.
ER -