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Quantum non-Gaussianity and quantification of nonclassicality

Quantum Physics 2018-05-21 v2

Abstract

The algebraic quantification of nonclassicality, which naturally arises from the quantum superposition principle, is related to properties of regular nonclassicality quasiprobabilities. The latter are obtained by non-Gaussian filtering of the Glauber-Sudarshan PP~function. They yield lower bounds for the degree of nonclassicality. We also derive bounds for convex combinations of Gaussian states for certifying quantum non-Gaussianity directly from the experimentally accessible nonclassicality quasiprobabilities. Other quantum-state representations, such as ss-parametrized quasiprobabilities, insufficiently indicate or even fail to directly uncover detailed information on the properties of quantum states. As an example, our approach is applied to multi-photon-added squeezed vacuum states.

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@article{arxiv.1803.03133,
  title  = {Quantum non-Gaussianity and quantification of nonclassicality},
  author = {B. Kühn and W. Vogel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.03133},
  year   = {2018}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures

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