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Quantum-enhanced measurements without entanglement (2018)
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Braun, D., Adesso, G., Benatti, F., Floreanini, R., Marzolino, U., Mitchell, M. W., & Pirandola, S. (2018). Quantum-enhanced measurements without entanglement. Reviews of Modern Physics, 90(3), Article 035006. https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.90.035006

Quantum-enhanced measurements exploit quantum mechanical effects for increasing the sensitivity of measurements of certain physical parameters and have great potential for both fundamental science and concrete applications. Most of the research has s... Read More about Quantum-enhanced measurements without entanglement.

Quantum coherence fluctuation relations (2018)
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Morris, B., & Adesso, G. (2018). Quantum coherence fluctuation relations. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 51, Article 414007. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aac115

We investigate manipulations of pure quantum states under incoherent or strictly incoherent operations assisted by a coherence battery, that is, a storage device whose degree of coherence is allowed to fluctuate in the process. This leads to the deri... Read More about Quantum coherence fluctuation relations.

Colloquium: quantum coherence as a resource (2017)
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Streltsov, A., Adesso, G., & Plenio, M. B. (2017). Colloquium: quantum coherence as a resource. Reviews of Modern Physics, 89, Article 041003. https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.89.041003

The coherent superposition of states, in combination with the quantization of observables, represents one of the most fundamental features that mark the departure of quantum mechanics from the classical realm. Quantum coherence in many-body systems e... Read More about Colloquium: quantum coherence as a resource.

Investigating Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering of continuous-variable bipartite states by non-Gaussian pseudospin measurements (2017)
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Xiang, Y., Xu, B., Mišta, L., Tufarelli, T., He, Q., & Adesso, G. (2017). Investigating Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering of continuous-variable bipartite states by non-Gaussian pseudospin measurements. Physical Review A, 96(4), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.042326

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering is an asymmetric form of correlations which is intermediate between quantum entanglement and Bell nonlocality, and can be exploited as a resource for quantum communication with one untrusted party. In particular... Read More about Investigating Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering of continuous-variable bipartite states by non-Gaussian pseudospin measurements.

Connecting measurement invasiveness to optimal metrological scenarios (2017)
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Moreira, S. V., Adesso, G., Correa, L. A., Coudreau, T., Keller, A., & Milman, P. (2017). Connecting measurement invasiveness to optimal metrological scenarios. Physical Review A, 96(1), Article 012110. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.012110

The connection between the Leggett-Garg inequality and optimal scenarios from the point of view of quantum metrology is investigated for perfect and noisy general dichotomic measurements. In this context, we show that the Fisher information can be ex... Read More about Connecting measurement invasiveness to optimal metrological scenarios.

Demonstration of monogamy relations for Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering in Gaussian cluster states (2017)
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Deng, X., Xiang, Y., Tian, C., Adesso, G., He, Q., Gong, Q., …Peng, K. (2017). Demonstration of monogamy relations for Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering in Gaussian cluster states. Physical Review Letters, 118(23), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.230501

Understanding how quantum resources can be quantified and distributed over many parties has profound applications in quantum communication. As one of the most intriguing features of quantum mechanics, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering is a usefu... Read More about Demonstration of monogamy relations for Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering in Gaussian cluster states.

Estimating phase with a random generator: strategies and resources in multiparameter quantum metrology (2017)
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Yousefjani, R., Nichols, R., Salimi, S., & Adesso, G. (in press). Estimating phase with a random generator: strategies and resources in multiparameter quantum metrology. Physical Review A, 95(6), Article 062307. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.062307

Quantum metrology aims to exploit quantum phenomena to overcome classical limitations in the estimation of relevant parameters. We consider a probe undergoing a phase shift φ whose generator is randomly sampled according to a distribution with unknow... Read More about Estimating phase with a random generator: strategies and resources in multiparameter quantum metrology.

Versatile Gaussian probes for squeezing estimation (2017)
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Rigovacca, L., Farace, A., Souza, L. A. M., De Pasquale, A., Giovannetti, V., & Adesso, G. (in press). Versatile Gaussian probes for squeezing estimation. Physical Review A, 95(5), Article 052331. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.052331

We consider an instance of “black-box” quantum metrology in the Gaussian framework, where we aim to estimate the amount of squeezing applied on an input probe, without previous knowledge on the phase of the applied squeezing. By taking the quantum Fi... Read More about Versatile Gaussian probes for squeezing estimation.

There is more to quantum interferometry than entanglement (2017)
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Bromley, T. R., Silva, I. A., Oncebay-Segura, C. O., Soares-Pinto, D. O., deAzevedo, E. R., Tufarelli, T., & Adesso, G. (2017). There is more to quantum interferometry than entanglement. Physical Review A, 95(5), Article 052313. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.052313

Entanglement has long stood as one of the characteristic features of quantum mechanics, yet recent developments have emphasized the importance of quantumness beyond entanglement for quantum foundations and technologies. We demonstrate that entangleme... Read More about There is more to quantum interferometry than entanglement.

Genuine multipartite nonlocality of permutationally invariant Gaussian states (2017)
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Xu, B., Tufarelli, T., & Adesso, G. (2017). Genuine multipartite nonlocality of permutationally invariant Gaussian states. Physical Review A, 95(1), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.012124

We investigate genuine multipartite nonlocality of pure permutationally invariant multimode Gaussian states of continuous variable systems, as detected by the violation of Svetlichny inequality. We identify the phase space settings leading to the lar... Read More about Genuine multipartite nonlocality of permutationally invariant Gaussian states.

Probing the diamagnetic term in light–matter interaction (2017)
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Rossi, M. A., Bina, M., Paris, M. G., Genoni, M. G., Adesso, G., & Tufarelli, T. (2017). Probing the diamagnetic term in light–matter interaction. Quantum Science and Technology, 2(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/aa540a

We address the quantum estimation of the diamagnetic, or A 2, term in an effective model of light–matter interaction featuring two coupled oscillators. First, we calculate the quantum Fisher information of the diamagnetic parameter in the interacting... Read More about Probing the diamagnetic term in light–matter interaction.

Unconditional security of entanglement-based continuous-variable quantum secret sharing (2017)
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Kogias, I., Xiang, Y., He, Q., & Adesso, G. (2017). Unconditional security of entanglement-based continuous-variable quantum secret sharing. Physical Review A, 95(1), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.012315

The need for secrecy and security is essential in communication. Secret sharing is a conventional protocol to distribute a secret message to a group of parties, who cannot access it individually but need to cooperate in order to decode it. While seve... Read More about Unconditional security of entanglement-based continuous-variable quantum secret sharing.

Multipartite Gaussian steering: monogamy constraints and quantum cryptography applications (2017)
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Xiang, Y., Kogias, I., Adesso, G., & He, Q. (2017). Multipartite Gaussian steering: monogamy constraints and quantum cryptography applications. Physical Review A, 95, Article 010101(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.010101

We derive laws for the distribution of quantum steering among different parties in multipartite Gaussian states under Gaussian measurements. We prove that a monogamy relation akin to the generalized Coffman-Kundu-Wootters inequality holds quantitativ... Read More about Multipartite Gaussian steering: monogamy constraints and quantum cryptography applications.

Measures and applications of quantum correlations (2016)
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Adesso, G., Bromley, T. R., & Cianciaruso, M. (2016). Measures and applications of quantum correlations. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 49(47), https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/49/47/473001

Quantum information theory is built upon the realisation that quantum resources like coherence and entanglement can be exploited for novel or enhanced ways of transmitting and manipulating information, such as quantum cryptography, teleportation, and... Read More about Measures and applications of quantum correlations.

Practical quantum metrology in noisy environments (2016)
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Nichols, R., Bromley, T. R., Correa, L. A., & Adesso, G. (2016). Practical quantum metrology in noisy environments. Physical Review A, 94(4), Article 042101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.042101

The problem of estimating an unknown phase ϕ using two-level probes in the presence of unital phase-covariant noise and using finite resources is investigated. We introduce a simple model in which the phase-imprinting operation on the probes is reali... Read More about Practical quantum metrology in noisy environments.

Should entanglement measures be monogamous or faithful? (2016)
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Lancien, C., Di Martino, S., Huber, M., Piani, M., Adesso, G., & Winter, A. (2016). Should entanglement measures be monogamous or faithful?. Physical Review Letters, 117, Article 060501. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.060501

“Is entanglement monogamous?” asks the title of a popular article [B. Terhal, IBM J. Res. Dev. 48, 71 (2004)], celebrating C. H. Bennett’s legacy on quantum information theory. While the answer is affirmative in the qualitative sense, the situation i... Read More about Should entanglement measures be monogamous or faithful?.

Strong subadditivity for log-determinant of covariance matrices and its applications (2016)
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Adesso, G., & Simon, R. (2016). Strong subadditivity for log-determinant of covariance matrices and its applications. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 49(34), Article 34LT02. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/49/34/34LT02

We prove that the log-determinant of the covariance matrix obeys the strong subadditivity inequality for arbitrary tripartite states of multimode continuous variable quantum systems. This establishes general limitations on the distribution of informa... Read More about Strong subadditivity for log-determinant of covariance matrices and its applications.

Assisted distillation of quantum coherence (2016)
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Chitambar, E., Streltsov, A., Rana, S., Bera, M. N., Adesso, G., & Lewenstein, M. (2016). Assisted distillation of quantum coherence. Physical Review Letters, 116(7), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.070402

We introduce and study the task of assisted coherence distillation. This task arises naturally in bipartite systems where both parties work together to generate the maximal possible coherence on one of the subsystems. Only incoherent operations are a... Read More about Assisted distillation of quantum coherence.