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Quantumness Witnesses

Quantum Physics 2008-11-21 v1

Abstract

A recently proposed test of quantumness [R. Alicki and N. Van Ryn, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 062001 (2008)] is put into a broader mathematical and physical perspective. The notion of quantumness witness is introduced, in analogy to entanglement witness, and illustrated by examples of a single qubit and many-body systems with additive observables. We compare also our proposal with the quantumness test based on quantum correlations (entanglement) and Bell inequalities. A class of quantumness witnesses associated to the phase space representation is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.0807.2615,
  title  = {Quantumness Witnesses},
  author = {Robert Alicki and Marco Piani and Nicholas Van Ryn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2615},
  year   = {2008}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures

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