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Faithful measure of Quantum non-Gaussianity via quantum relative entropy

Quantum Physics 2019-07-26 v2

Abstract

We introduce a measure of quantum non-Gaussianity (QNG) for those quantum states not accessible by a mixture of Gaussian states in terms of quantum relative entropy. Specifically, we employ a convex-roof extension using all possible mixed-state decompositions beyond the usual pure-state decompositions. We prove that this approach brings a QNG measure fulfilling the properties desired as a proper monotone under Gaussian channels and conditional Gaussian operations. As an illustration, we explicitly calculate QNG for the noisy single-photon states and demonstrate that QNG coincides with non-Gaussianity of the state itself when the single-photon fraction is sufficiently large.

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@article{arxiv.1809.02999,
  title  = {Faithful measure of Quantum non-Gaussianity via quantum relative entropy},
  author = {Jiyong Park and Jaehak Lee and Kyunghyun Baek and Se-Wan Ji and Hyunchul Nha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.02999},
  year   = {2019}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure, published version