Quantum coherence and nonclassical correlation are key features of a quantum world. Quantifying coherence and nonclassical correlation are two key tasks in quantum information theory. First, we present a bona fide measure of quantum coherence by utilizing the Hellinger distance. This coherence measure is proven to fulfill all the criteria of a well-defined coherence measure, including the strong monotonicity in the resource theories of quantum coherence. In terms of this coherence measure, the distribution of quantum coherence in multipartite systems is studied and a corresponding polygamy relation is proposed. Its operational meanings and the relations between the generation of quantum correlations and the coherence are also investigated. Moreover, we present the Hellinger distance-based measure of nonclassical correlation, which not only inherits the nice properties of the Hellinger distance including contractivity, but also shows a powerful analytic computability for a large class of quantum states. We show that there is an explicit tradeoff relation satisfied by the quantum coherence and this nonclassical correlation.

• Received 8 December 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.062342