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The notorious quantum measurement problem brings out the difficulty to reconcile two quantum postulates: the unitary evolution of closed quantum systems and the wave-function collapse after a measurement. This problematics is particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 George Moreno , Ranieri Nery , Cristhiano Duarte , Rafael Chaves

We theoretically demonstrate via numerical modeling that fully degenerate triple-photon states generated by three-mode spontaneous parametric down-conversion can be categorized into four distinct states: 0-phase, $\pi$/2-phase, $\pi$-phase,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Da Zhang , Yu Zhang , Juan Gao

Continuous-variable systems enable key quantum technologies in computation, communication, and sensing. Bosonic Gaussian states emerge naturally in various such applications, including gravitational-wave and dark-matter detection. A…

We explore experimentally the space of two-qubit quantum correlated mixed states, including frontier ones as defined by the use of quantum discord and von Neumann entropy. Our experimental setup is flexible enough to allow for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 Andrea Chiuri , Giuseppe Vallone , Mauro Paternostro , Paolo Mataloni

We calculate the analytic expression for geometric measure of entanglement for arbitrary superposition of two $N$-qubit canonical orthonormal Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger ($GHZ$) states and the same for two $W$ states. In course of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-14 Preeti Parashar , Swapan Rana

The quantum nature of the state of a bosonic quantum field manifests itself in its entanglement, coherence, or optical nonclassicality which are each known to be resources for quantum computing or metrology. We provide quantitative and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 Anaelle Hertz , Nicolas J. Cerf , Stephan De Bièvre

The non-classical nature of quantum states, often illustrated using entanglement measures or quantum discord, constitutes a resource for quantum information protocols. However, the non-classicality of a quantum system cannot be encapsulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 Carole Addis , Teiko Heinosaari , Jukka Kiukas , Elsi-Mari Laine , Sabrina Maniscalco

We address an open question about the existence of entangled continuous-variable (CV) Werner states with positive partial transpose (PPT). We prove that no such state exists by showing that all PPT CV Werner states are separable. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Daniel McNulty , Richard Tatham , Ladislav Mišta

We report on experimental verification of quantum non-Gaussianity of a heralded single photon state with positive Wigner function. We unambiguously demonstrate that the generated state cannot be expressed as a mixture of Gaussian states. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-16 Miroslav Jezek , Ivo Straka , Michal Micuda , Miloslav Dusek , Jaromir Fiurasek , Radim Filip

We analyze two two-mode continuous variable separable states with the same marginal states. We adopt the definition of classicality in the form of well-defined positive Wigner function describing the state and find that although the states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 Razieh Taghiabadi , Seyed Javad Akhtarshenas , Mohsen Sarbishaei

We investigate the continuous-variable entanglement swapping protocol in a non-Gaussian setting, with non- Gaussian states employed either as entangled inputs and/or as swapping resources. The quality of the swapping protocol is assessed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 F. Dell'Anno , D. Buono , G. Nocerino , S. De Siena , F. Illuminati

We introduce a new quantity for describing nonclassicality of an arbitrary optical two-mode Gaussian state which remains invariant under any global photon-number preserving unitary transformation of the covariance matrix of the state. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Ievgen I. Arkhipov , Jan Peřina , Jiří Svozilík , Adam Miranowicz

We extend the quantum discord to continuous variable systems and evaluate Gaussian quantum discord C(\rho) for bipartite Gaussian states. In particular, for squeezed thermal states (STS), we explicitly maximize the extractable information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Paolo Giorda , Matteo G. A. Paris

A measure of nonclassicality of quantum states based on the volume of the negative part of the Wigner function is proposed. We analyze this quantity for Fock states, squeezed displaced Fock states and cat-like states defined as coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anatole Kenfack , Karol Zyczkowski

We address measurement-based generation of quantum coherence in continuous variable systems. We consider Gaussian measurements performed on Gaussian states and focus on two scenarios. In the first one, we assume an initially correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-14 Francesco Albarelli , Marco G. Genoni , Matteo G. A. Paris

There is a commonly recognized paradigm in which a multipartite quantum system described by a density matrix having no product eigenbasis is considered to possess nonclassical correlation. Supporting this paradigm, we define two entropic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-02 Akira SaiToh , Robabeh Rahimi , Mikio Nakahara

In continuous-variable quantum information, non-Gaussian entangled states that are obtained from Gaussian entangled states via photon subtraction are known to contain more entanglement. This makes them better resources for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Jonathan P. Dowling , Girish S. Agarwal

Non-Gaussian entanglement is a promising resource in various quantum tasks. A recently defined class identifies entanglement that cannot be generated by applying Gaussian operations to separable inputs. To further explore the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Jiajie Guo , Shuheng Liu , Matteo Fadel , Qiongyi He

We consider the problem of evaluating the entanglement of non-Gaussian mixed states generated by photon subtraction from entangled squeezed states. The entanglement measures we use are the negativity and the logarithmic negativity. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira Kitagawa , Masahiro Takeoka , Masahide Sasaki , Anthony Chefles

Recent results have established dramatic advantages in learning properties of quantum states when a quantum computer is available to process or jointly measure multiple copies of the unknown quantum state. Learning tasks can be accomplished…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Spencer Dimitroff , John Kallaugher , Ashe Miller , Mohan Sarovar