In this talk, we will present a framework for the quantification of the capability of various quantum processes to generate coherence. The relevant measures, admitting computable expressions, are based on probabilistic averages and arise naturally from the viewpoint of coherence as a resource. We will focus mainly on unitary evolutions and various dephasing processes, including Lindblad dynamics that dephase in the long-time limit. The latter will turn out to have, in specific cases, optimal coherence-generating power for some intermediate time.

* Georgios Styliaris, USC Dornsife, Department of Physics and Astronomy