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Bosonic Gaussian states are ubiquitous in quantum optics and condensed matter physics. While they are efficiently handled within the Gaussian formalism, sampling requires calculating amplitudes in the boson occupation basis. This step,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Tong Liu , Hui-Ke Jin , Tao Xiang , Hong-Hao Tu

The Gaussian state description of continuous variables is adapted to describe the quantum interaction between macroscopic atomic samples and continuous-wave light beams. The formalism is very efficient: a non-linear differential equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. B. Madsen , K. Mølmer

We present a theory of entanglement transformations of Gaussian pure states with local Gaussian operations and classical communication. This is the experimentally accessible set of operations that can be realized with optical elements such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Giedke , J. Eisert , J. I. Cirac , M. B. Plenio

Numerical stochastic integration is a powerful tool for the investigation of quantum dynamics in interacting many body systems. As with all numerical integration of differential equations, the initial conditions of the system being…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 M. K. Olsen , A. S. Bradley

Quantum state tomography, a fundamental tool for quantum physics, usually requires a number of state copies that scale exponentially with the system size, owing to the intricate quantum correlations between subsystems. We show that, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Xiaobin Zhao , Pengcheng Liao , Francesco Anna Mele , Ulysse Chabaud , Quntao Zhuang

Quantisation with Gaussian type states offers certain advantages over other quantisation schemes, in particular, they can serve to regularise formally discontinuous classical functions leading to well defined quantum operators. In this work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Jean-Pierre Gazeau , Véronique Hussin , James Moran , Kevin Zelaya

Gaussian processes (GPs) are used widely in the analysis of astronomical time series. GPs with rational spectral densities have state-space representations which allow O(n) evaluation of the likelihood. We calculate analytic state space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-23 Andrés Jordán , Susana Eyheramendy , Johannes Buchner

We introduce a protocol that maps finite-dimensional pure input states onto approximately Gaussian states in an iterative procedure. This protocol can be used to distill highly entangled bi-partite Gaussian states from a supply of weakly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. E. Browne , J. Eisert , S. Scheel , M. B. Plenio

Quantum Gaussian states can be considered as the majority of the practical quantum states used in quantum communications and more generally in quantum information. Here we consider their properties in relation with the geometrically uniform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 Gianfranco Cariolaro , Roberto Corvaja , Gianfranco Pierobon

Gaussian unitary transformations are generated by quadratic Hamiltonians, i.e., Hamiltonians containing quadratic terms in creations and annihilation operators, and are heavily used in many areas of quantum physics, ranging from quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Tommaso Guaita , Lucas Hackl , Thomas Quella

We develop a theory of Gaussian states over general quantum kinematical systems with finitely many degrees of freedom. The underlying phase space is described by a locally compact abelian (LCA) group $G$ with a symplectic structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Cedric Beny , Jason Crann , Hun Hee Lee , Sang-Jun Park , Sang-Gyun Youn

We show with explicit formulas that one can completely identify an unknown quantum process with only one weakly entangled state; and identify a quantum optical Gaussian process with either one two-mode squeezed state or a few different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Xiang-Bin Wang , J. -Z. Hu , Z. -W. Yu , Franco Nori

Quantum optical measurement techniques offer a rich avenue for quantum control of mechanical oscillators via cavity optomechanics. In particular, a powerful yet little explored combination utilizes optical measurements to perform heralded…

Gaussian boson sampling exploits squeezed states to provide a highly efficient way to demonstrate quantum computational advantage. We perform experiments with 50 input single-mode squeezed states with high indistinguishability and squeezing…

As is well-known in the context of topological insulators and superconductors, short-range-correlated fermionic pure Gaussian states with fundamental symmetries are systematically classified by the periodic table. We revisit this topic from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Zongping Gong , Tommaso Guaita

Werner and Wolf have proven in Phys. Rev. Lett. 86(16) (2001) a very elegant necessary and sufficient condition for a bosonic continuous variable bipartite Gaussian mixed quantum state to be separable. This condition is, however, difficult…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Maurice de Gosson

Gaussian unitaries, generated by quadratic Hamiltonians, are fundamental in quantum optics and continuous-variable computing. Their structures correspond to symplectic (bosons) and orthogonal (fermions) groups, but physical realizations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Jingqi Sun , Joshua Combes , Lucas Hackl

A review of probability representation of quantum states in given for optical and photon number tomography approaches. Explicit connection of photon number tomogram with measurable by homodyne detector optical tomogram is obtained. New…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 O. V. Man'ko , V. I. Man'ko

We introduce the Gaussian quantum operator representation, using the most general multi-mode Gaussian operator basis. The representation unifies and substantially extends existing phase-space representations of density matrices for Bose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joel F. Corney , Peter D. Drummond

A study on a method for the establishment of a phase space representation of quantum theory is presented. The approach utilizes the properties of Gaussian distribution, the properties of Hermite polynomials, Fourier analysis and the current…