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Quantumness Beyond Entanglement: The Case of Symmetric States

Quantum Physics 2022-02-24 v1

Abstract

It is nowadays accepted that truly quantum correlations can exist even in the absence of entanglement. For the case of symmetric states, a physically trivial unitary transformation can alter a quantum state from entangled to separable and vice versa. We propose to certify the presence of quantumness via an average over all physically relevant modal decompositions. We investigate extremal states for such a measure: SU(2)-coherent states possess the least quantumness whereas the opposite extreme is inhabited by states with maximally spread Majorana constellations.

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@article{arxiv.2110.11361,
  title  = {Quantumness Beyond Entanglement: The Case of Symmetric States},
  author = {Aaron Z. Goldberg and Markus Grassl and Gerd Leuchs and Luis L. Sánchez-Soto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.11361},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures; comments welcome!