Resource theory of coherence in continuous position basis from measurement-induced dephasing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09014v2
• Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 19:06:59 GMT
• Title: Resource theory of coherence in continuous position basis from measurement-induced dephasing
• Abstract summary: We develop a resource-theoretic framework for quantum coherence directly in continuous basis.<n>We introduce a physically motivated dephasing channel based on random momentum kicks.<n>We show that continuous-basis coherence is tied to dephasing disturbance rather than to a nonempty set of diagonal states.
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• Abstract: We develop a resource-theoretic framework for quantum coherence directly in continuous basis, with emphasis on the position representation. Since position eigenstates are non-normalizable generalized eigenstates, the standard finite-dimensional dephasing map cannot be transferred directly to normal states. We therefore introduce a physically motivated dephasing channel based on random momentum kicks, equivalently described as the unconditional back-action of a finite-resolution position measurement. This yields a fixed-point notion of incoherence and a natural class of dephasing-covariant free operations. For physically relevant kernels, however, the fixed-point set contains no normal states, showing that continuous-basis coherence is tied to dephasing disturbance rather than to distance from a nonempty set of diagonal states. We study two quantifiers built from the channel action: a relative-entropy dephasing loss and a Hilbert-Schmidt dephasing loss. The former satisfies the main resource-theoretic properties under the free operations considered, while the latter is convex and experimentally transparent but fails monotonicity and strong monotonicity. We also formulate threshold witnesses for certifying coherence above a finite value and connect them, in a two-path setting, with interference visibility. Finally, we illustrate the framework with a Gaussian wavepacket evolving in a gravitational potential. The resulting theory provides a mathematically consistent and physically motivated treatment of coherence in continuous-variable systems.

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