Nonnegativity for hafnians of certain matrices
Quantum Physics
2021-02-26 v2 Mathematical Physics
Combinatorics
math.MP
Number Theory
Abstract
We show that a complex symmetric matrix of the form where is Hermitian positive semidefinite, has a nonnegative hafnian. These are positive scalar multiples of matrices that are encodable in a Gaussian boson sampler. Further, the hafnian of this matrix is non-decreasing in in the sense that if .
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@article{arxiv.1811.10342,
title = {Nonnegativity for hafnians of certain matrices},
author = {Kamil Bradler and Shmuel Friedland and Robert Israel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.10342},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Close to the published version in Linear and Multilinear Algebra