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We are a bunch of teeny quantum flecks.
We all are in a state - no, not a rage,
I mean, we've got weird features, and you gauge
each of these on a scale of 1 to X.

One such feature is bliss: It gives us clearance
to be both heads and tails, both up and down,
to walk concurrently all streets in town,
and fuel computers. We call this coherence.

But some of us are not that well endowed,
so here we ask: How well can you pick out
the most coherent critters from the crowd?

You will need a distillery! No doubt,
it should be fit for purpose, even though
sometimes it fails, and you need one more go.




About this #PoetRL

This is a double feature for two papers.

  • Paper 1 Title:  One-Shot Coherence Distillation
  • Authors:  Bartosz Regula, Kun Fang, Xin Wang, and Gerardo Adesso
  • Reference:  Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 010401 – Published 3 July 2018
  • URL:  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.010401

  • Paper 2 Title:  Probabilistic Distillation of Quantum Coherence
  • Authors:  Kun Fang, Xin Wang, Ludovico Lami, Bartosz Regula, and Gerardo Adesso
  • Reference:  Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 070404 – Published 17 August 2018
  • URL:  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.070404

  • Poem by:  gerardo.adesso@gmail.com  
  • #PoetRL ID:  ¶3
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