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Resource theory of quantum non-Gaussianity and Wigner negativity

Quantum Physics 2018-12-05 v2

Abstract

We develop a resource theory for continuous-variable systems grounded on operations routinely available within current quantum technologies. In particular, the set of free operations is convex and includes quadratic transformations and conditional coarse-grained measurements. The present theory lends itself to quantify both quantum non-Gaussianity and Wigner negativity as resources, depending on the choice of the free-state set --- i.e., the convex hull of Gaussian states or the states with positive Wigner function, respectively. After showing that the theory admits no maximally resourceful state, we define a computable resource monotone --- the Wigner logarithmic negativity. We use the latter to assess the resource content of experimentally relevant states --- e.g., photon-added, photon-subtracted, cubic-phase, and cat states --- and to find optimal working points of some resource concentration protocols. We envisage applications of this framework to sub-universal and universal quantum information processing over continuous variables.

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@article{arxiv.1804.05763,
  title  = {Resource theory of quantum non-Gaussianity and Wigner negativity},
  author = {Francesco Albarelli and Marco G. Genoni and Matteo G. A. Paris and Alessandro Ferraro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.05763},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

18 pages, 10 figures, close to published version