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Coherence is a foundational feature of quantum mechanics and is increasingly becoming recognized as a key resource for quantum theory. Based on coherence measure, our goal in this work is to evaluate the average coherence of a quantum state with respect to a broad class of informationally complete symmetric measurements by using Wigner–Yanase skew information. In addition, the relationship between these average coherence is also clearly established according to the different efficiency parameters. These results may further enrich the properties of average coherence.


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This work is supported by National Science Foundation of Sichuan Province (No. 2022NSFSC0534), the Central Guidance on Local Science and Technology Development Fund of Sichuan Province (No. 22ZYZYTS0064), the Chengdu Key Research and Development Support Program (No. 2021-YF09-0016-GX), the key project of Sichuan Normal University (No. XKZX-02).
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Tang, L., Wu, F. Characterizing the average coherence via a broad class of informationally complete symmetric measurements. Quantum Inf Process 22, 65 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-022-03822-0
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