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The negativity of a given state's Wigner function has been proposed as a measure of quantumness of that state in a unipartite system. This otherwise physically intuitive and useful phase-space measure however does not yield the right…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-19 Tyler E Keating , Adam T. C. Steege , Arjendu K. Pattanayak

The original Wigner function provides a way of representing in phase space the quantum states of systems with continuous degrees of freedom. Wigner functions have also been developed for discrete quantum systems, one popular version being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kathleen S. Gibbons , Matthew J. Hoffman , William K. Wootters

We consider the nonclassicality distance indicator of a state in finite-dimensional quantum systems which is evaluating a state nonclassicality by its remoteness from the set of "classical states". The latter are identified with those…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Arsen Khvedelidze , Astghik Torosyan

We consider the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation with a coupling spin-orbit in the semi-classical regime $\hbar\searrow 0$ and large spin number $\spin\rightarrow +\infty$ such that $\hbar^\delta\spin=c$ where $c>0$ and $\delta>0$ are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Didier Robert

Gibbons et al. [Phys. Rev. A 70, 062101(2004)] have recently defined a class of discrete Wigner functions W to represent quantum states in a Hilbert space with finite dimension. We show that the only pure states having non-negative W for…

We make a comparative study of quadrature squeezing, photon-number distribution and Wigner function in a decayed quantum system. Specifically, for a field mode prepared initially in cat states interacting with a zero-temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Faisal A. A. El-Orany

We study the evolution of the hybrid entangled squeezed states of the qubit-oscillator system in the strong coupling domain. Following the adiabatic approximation we obtain the reduced density matrices of the qubit and the oscillator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 M. Balamurugan , R. Chakrabarti , B. Virgin Jenisha

Based on large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we examine the correlations along the edges of two-dimensional semi-infinite quantum critical Heisenberg spin-$1/2$ systems. In particular, we consider coupled quantum spin-dimer systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-07 Lukas Weber , Francesco Parisen Toldin , S. Wessel

Quantum metrology with nonclassical states offers a promising route to improved precision in physical measurements. The quantum effects of Schr{\"o}dinger-cat superpositions or entanglements allow measurement uncertainties to reach below…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Y. A. Yang , W. -T. Luo , J. -L. Zhang , S. -Z. Wang , Chang-Ling Zou , T. Xia , Z. -T. Lu

According to a classical result due to Hudson, the Wigner function of a pure, continuous variable quantum state is non-negative if and only if the state is Gaussian. We have proven an analogous statement for finite-dimensional quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Gross

We propose a method for generating collective spin cat states in a cavity-coupled atomic ensemble by exploiting strong light-matter entanglement and anti-squeezing associated with the superradiant phase transition. We numerically and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Taiga Nakamoto , Shohei Imai , Kazuaki Takasan

In [Phys. Rev. A 70, 062101 (2004)] Gibbons et al. defined a class of discrete Wigner functions W to represent quantum states in a finite Hilbert space dimension d. I characterize a set C_d of states having non-negative W simultaneously in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ernesto F. Galvao

The use of quantum information in technology promises to supersede the so-called classical devices used nowadays. Understanding what features are inherently non-classical is crucial for reaching better-than-classical performance. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau

In this thesis concrete quantum systems are investigated in the framework of the environment induced decoherence. The focus is on the dynamics of highly nonclassical quantum states, the Wigner function of which are negative over some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Foldi

We study trajectories of collective spin states of an ensemble of spinors. The spinors considered here are either trapped ions in free space or atoms confined in a cavity, both systems of which are engineered through their interactions with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Caspar Groiseau , Stuart J. Masson , Scott Parkins

A new spinning particle with a definite sign of the energy is defined on spacelike hypersurfaces after a critical discussion of the standard spinning particles. They are the pseudoclassical basis of the positive energy $({1\over 2},0)$ [or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Bigazzi , L. Lusanna

The Wigner function is a phase space quasi-probability distribution whose negative regions provide a direct, local signature of nonclassicality. To identify where phase-sensitive structure concentrates, we introduce local positive- and…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-05 Kyu-won Park , Soojoon Lee , Kabgyun Jeong

Spin precession is a textbook example of dynamics of a quantum system that exactly mimics its classical counterpart. Here we challenge this view by certifying the quantumness of exotic states of a nuclear spin through its uniform…

In a recent paper, Tilma, Everitt {\it et al.} derived a generalized Wigner function that can characterize both the discrete and continuous variable states, i.e., hybrid states. As such, one can expect that the negativity of the generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Ievgen I. Arkhipov , Artur Barasiński , Jiří Svozilík

We derive an explicit expression for geometric measure of entanglement for spin and other quantum system. A relation of entanglement in pure state with the mean value of spin is given, thus, at the experimental level the local measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Andrzej M. Frydryszak , Volodymyr M. Tkachuk