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The characterization of quantum processes is a key tool in quantum information processing tasks for several reasons: on one hand, it allows to acknowledge errors in the implementations of quantum algorithms; on the other, it allows to…

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Quantum circuits have been widely used as a platform to simulate generic quantum many-body systems. In particular, random quantum circuits provide a means to probe universal features of many-body quantum chaos and ergodicity. Some such…

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For any state in a $D$-dimensional Hilbert space with a choice of basis, one can define a discrete version of the Wigner function -- a quasi-probability distribution which represents the state on a discrete phase space. The Wigner function…

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The Gibbs canonical state, as a maximum entropy density matrix, represents a quantum system in equilibrium with a thermostat. This state plays an essential role in thermodynamics and serves as the initial condition for nonequilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Denys I. Bondar , Andre G. Campos , Renan Cabrera , Herschel A. Rabitz

A unification of the set of quasiprobability representations using the mathematical theory of frames was recently developed for quantum systems with finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, in which it was proven that such representations require…

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In quantum resource theory, one is often interested in identifying which states serve as the best resources for particular quantum tasks. If a relative comparison between quantum states can be made, this gives rise to a partial order, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Jan de Boer , Giuseppe Di Giulio , Esko Keski-Vakkuri , Erik Tonni

We analyze a known version of the discrete Wigner function and some connections with Quantum Iterated Funcion Systems. This paper is a follow up of "A dynamical point of view of Quantum Information: entropy and pressure" by the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 A. Baraviera , C. F. Lardizabal , A. O. Lopes , M. Terra Cunha

We investigate the tomography of unknown unitary quantum processes within the framework of a finite-dimensional Wigner-type representation. This representation provides a rich visualization of quantum operators by depicting them as shapes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Amit Devra , Léo Van Damme , Frederik vom Ende , Emanuel Malvetti , Steffen J. Glaser

We imagine an experiment on an unknown quantum mechanical system in which the system is prepared in various ways and a range of measurements are performed. For each measurement M and preparation rho the experimenter can determine, given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-20 Stephanie Wehner , Matthias Christandl , Andrew C. Doherty

Classical surfaces in phase space correspond to quantum states in Hilbert space. Subsystems specify factor spaces of the Hilbert space. An entangled state corresponds semiclassically to a surface that cannot be decomposed into a product of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Ozorio de Almeida

Phase spaces as given by the Wigner distribution function provide a natural description of infinite-dimensional quantum systems. They are an important tool in quantum optics and have been widely applied in the context of time-frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Bálint Koczor , Frederik vom Ende , Maurice de Gosson , Steffen J. Glaser , Robert Zeier

Random sets are used to get a continuous partition of the cardinality of the union of many overlapping sets. The formalism uses M\"obius transforms and adapts Shapley's methodology in cooperative game theory, into the context of set theory.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. Vourdas

The new numerical version of the Wigner approach to quantum mechanics for treatment thermodynamic properties of strongly coupled systems of particles has been developed for extreme conditions, when analytical approximations obtained in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. S. Larkin , V. S. Filinov , V. E. Fortov

We develop a systematic coarse graining procedure for systems of $N$ qubits. We exploit the underlying geometrical structures of the associated discrete phase space to produce a coarse-grained version with reduced effective size. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Olivia Di Matteo , Luis L. Sanchez-Soto , Gerd Leuchs , Markus Grassl

The mathematical description of the quantum harmonic oscillator is essentially based on the Gaussian function. In the case of a quantum oscillator with finite-dimensional Hilbert space, the position space consists in a finite number of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Nicolae Cotfas

An extended Wigner function formalism is introduced for describing the quantum dynamics of particles with internal degrees of freedom in the presence of spatially inhomogeneous fields. The approach is used for quantitative simulations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-09 Marcel Utz , Malcolm H Levitt , Nathan Cooper , Hendrik Ulbricht

We apply concepts of random differential geometry connected to the random matrix ensembles of the random linear operators acting on finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. The values taken by random linear operators belong to the Liouville…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maciej M. Duras

We show that if the Wigner function of a (possibly mixed) quantum state decays toward infinity faster than any polynomial in the phase space variables $x$ and $p$, then so do all of its derivatives, i.e., it is a Schwartz function on phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-18 Felipe Hernandez , C. Jess Riedel

In quantum optics, the quantum state of a light beam is represented through the Wigner function, a density on $\mathbb R^2$ which may take negative values but must respect intrinsic positivity constraints imposed by quantum physics. In the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Karim Lounici , Katia Meziani , Gabriel Peyré

We introduce a numerical method to simulate nonlinear open quantum dynamics of a particle in situations where its state undergoes significant expansion in phase space while generating small quantum features at the phase-space Planck scale.…