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