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The global indicator of classicality of an arbitrary $N$-level quantum system

Quantum Physics 2019-10-29 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Computational Physics

Abstract

It is commonly accepted that a deviation of the Wigner quasiprobability distribution of a quantum state from a proper statistical distribution signifies its nonclassicality. Following this ideology, we introduce the global indicator QN\mathcal{Q}_N for quantification of "classicality-quantumness" correspondence in the form of the functional on the orbit space O[PN]\mathcal{O}[\mathfrak{P}_N] of the SU(N)SU(N) group adjoint action on the state space PN\mathfrak{P}_N of an NN-dimensional quantum system. The indicator QN\mathcal{Q}_{N} is defined as a relative volume of a subspace O[PN(+)]O[PN],\mathcal{O}[\mathfrak{P}^{(+)}_N] \subset \mathcal{O}[\mathfrak{P}_N]\,, where the Wigner quasiprobability distribution is positive. An algebraic structure of O[PN(+)]\mathcal{O}[\mathfrak{P}^{(+)}_N] is revealed and exemplified by a single qubit (N=2)(N=2) and single qutrit (N=3)(N=3). For the Hilbert-Schmidt ensemble of qutrits the dependence of the global indicator on the moduli parameter of the Wigner quasiprobability distribution has been found.

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@article{arxiv.1910.11220,
  title  = {The global indicator of classicality of an arbitrary $N$-level quantum system},
  author = {Vahagn Abgaryan and Arsen Khvedelidze and Astghik Torosyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.11220},
  year   = {2019}
}