Unitary-accessible coherence-erasure distance: Exact qubit solution and a tight qutrit bound

arXiv:2610.11995 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Fidelity — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Optimal Transport — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unitary Dynamics — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• Erasing Quantum Coherence: An Operational Approach
• On the monotonicity of a quantum optimal transport cost

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