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We show that a Kirkwood-Dirac type quasiprobability distribution is sufficient to reveal any arbitrary quantum resource. This is achieved by demonstrating that it is always possible to identify a set of incompatible measurements that…

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A defining signature of classical systems is "in principle measurability" without disturbance: a feature manifestly violated by quantum systems. We describe a multi-interferometer experimental setup that can, in principle, reveal the…

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We study the dynamics of classical and quantum systems undergoing a continuous measurement of position by schematizing the measurement apparatus with an infinite set of harmonic oscillators at finite temperature linearly coupled to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlo Presilla , Roberto Onofrio , Marco Patriarca

Variational techniques have long been at the heart of atomic, solid-state, and many-body physics. They have recently extended to quantum and classical machine learning, providing a basis for representing quantum states via neural networks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Thomas Spriggs , Arash Ahmadi , Bokai Chen , Eliska Greplova

In this article we propose a solution to the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. We point out that the measurement problem can be traced to an a priori notion of classicality in the formulation of quantum mechanics. If this notion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Olaf Dreyer

Nonclassical state is an essential resource for quantum-enhanced communication, computing and metrology to outperform their classical counterpart. The nonclassical states that can operate at high bandwidth and room temperature while being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-09 Jian-Peng Dou , Ai-Lin Yang , Mu-Yan Du , Di Lao , Hang Li , Xiao-Ling Pang , Jun Gao , Lu-Feng Qiao , Hao Tang , Xian-Min Jin

I propose a new and direct connection between classical mechanics and quantum mechanics where I derive the quantum mechanical propagator from a variational principle. This variational principle is Hamilton's modified principle generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-15 John Hegseth

Familiar formulations of classical and quantum mechanics are shown to follow from a general theory of mechanics based on pure states with an intrinsic probability structure. This theory is developed to the stage where theorems from quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 Peter Taylor

Coarse graining is a common imperfection of realistic quantum measurement, obstructing the direct observation of quantum features. Under highly coarse-grained measurement, we experimentally detect the continuous-variable nonclassicality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Chan Roh , Young-Do Yoon , Jiyong Park , Young-Sik Ra

Quantum metrology aims to exploit quantum phenomena to overcome classical limitations in the estimation of relevant parameters. We consider a probe undergoing a phase shift $\varphi$ whose generator is randomly sampled according to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Rozhin Yousefjani , Rosanna Nichols , Shahriar Salimi , Gerardo Adesso

Quantum scrambling describes the spreading of local information into many degrees of freedom in quantum systems. This provides the conceptual connection among diverse phenomena ranging from thermalizing quantum dynamics to models of black…

In quantum optics, measurement statistics -- for example, photocounting statistics -- are considered nonclassical if they cannot be reproduced with statistical mixtures of classical radiation fields. We have formulated a necessary and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 V. S. Kovtoniuk , E. V. Stolyarov , O. V. Kliushnichenko , A. A. Semenov

We generalise a non-classicality test described by Kot et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233601 (2010)], which can be used to rule out any classical description of a physical system. The test is based on measurements of quadrature operators and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Luca Fresta , Johannes Borregaard , Anders S. Sørensen

Preparation and measurement of physical systems are the operational building blocks of any physical experiment, and to describe them is the first purpose of any physical theory. It is remarkable that, in some situations, even when only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Carlos de Gois , George Moreno , Ranieri Nery , Samuraí Brito , Rafael Chaves , Rafael Rabelo

Quantum effects in metrology can in principle enhance measurement precision from the so-called standard quantum limit to the Heisenberg Limit. Further advancements in quantum metrology largely rely on innovative metrology protocols that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Zhixing Zou , Jiangbin Gong , Weitao Chen

Nonclassicality filters provide a universal method to visualize the nonclassicality of arbitrary quantum states of light through negativities of a regularized Glauber-Sudarshan $P$ function, also denoted as nonclassicality quasiprobability.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 B. Kühn , W. Vogel

Contextuality is a feature of quantum correlations. It is crucial from a foundational perspective as a nonclassical phenomenon, and from an applied perspective as a resource for quantum advantage. It is commonly defined in terms of hidden…

This paper establishes a direct, robust and intimate connection between (i) non classicality tests for various quantum features, e.g., non-Boolean logic, quantum coherence, nonlocality, quantum entanglement, quantum discord; (ii) negative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Sooryansh Asthana , V. Ravishankar

Resource theories are broad frameworks that capture how useful objects are in performing specific tasks. In this paper we devise a formal resource theory quantum measurements, focusing on the ability of a measurement to acquire information.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Thomas Guff , Nathan A. McMahon , Yuval R. Sanders , Alexei Gilchrist

Contextuality is considered as an intrinsic signature of non-classicality, and a crucial resource for achieving unique advantages of quantum information processing. However, recently there have been debates on whether classical fields may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-28 Aonan Zhang , Huichao Xu , Jie Xie , Han Zhang , Brian J. Smith , M. S. Kim , Lijian Zhang