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Universal nonclassicality witnesses for harmonic oscillators

Quantum Physics 2012-06-08 v2

Abstract

It is shown that a nonclassicality witness, whose expectation value can be measured for all quantum states, can be constructed from every nonclassicality filter. This finding leads to a set of universal witnesses, parameterized by only three real numbers, for the detection of nonclassicality of any quantum state of a harmonic oscillator. An explicit operator expression is given for such a universal witness. The application of the witnesses is demonstrated for a nontrivial example, and its experimental measurement is briefly considered.

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@article{arxiv.1205.2898,
  title  = {Universal nonclassicality witnesses for harmonic oscillators},
  author = {T. Kiesel and W. Vogel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.2898},
  year   = {2012}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures

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