Maximal coherence of quantum measurement and the resource theory of sharpness

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05847v1
• Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:10:35 GMT
• Title: Maximal coherence of quantum measurement and the resource theory of sharpness
• Abstract summary: A resource theory of quantum measurement can be addressed in terms of quantum coherence and measurement sharpness.<n>We identify measurement sharpness as the maximal coherence that is achievable under all possible unitary changes of the reference basis.<n>Results provide a measurement-theoretic analogue of the maximal-coherence & purity correspondence for quantum states.
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• Abstract: A resource theory of quantum measurement can be addressed in terms of quantum coherence and measurement sharpness, respectively. The former analyzes the off-diagonal structure of POVM elements in a predetermined basis while the latter analyzes the deviation from trivial, state-independent, measurements. We establish a direct connection between the two resource theories by identifying measurement sharpness as the maximal coherence that is achievable under all possible unitary changes of the reference basis. For a broad class of POVMs whose elements share a common eigenbasis, we show that the maximal distance-based coherence of measurement coincides exactly with the corresponding distance-based sharpness monotone. We further extend this equivalence, with element-additive distances, to POVMs whose elements admit a common mutually unbiased basis structure. These results provide a measurement-theoretic analogue of the maximal-coherence \& purity correspondence for quantum states. We also show that the maximal coherence of measurement is faithful with respect to trivial measurements and is monotonic under fuzzifying operations for dichotomic measurements, as well as under mixed-unitary and unitarily covariant preprocessing channels. Finally, we illustrate the operational meaning and limitations of the equivalence through qubit POVMs, single-photon phase sensing, and noisy photon-number resolving detection. In particular, the maximal Fisher information in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer is shown to be determined by the squared maximal coherence of the measurement, while in an imperfect photon-number resolving detector the maximal coherence behaves as a proper sharpness monotone, unlike conventional PVM-based unsharpness measures.

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