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We explore the role of majorization theory in quantum phase space. To this purpose, we restrict ourselves to quantum states with positive Wigner functions and show that the continuous version of majorization theory provides an elegant and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Zacharie Van Herstraeten , Michael G. Jabbour , Nicolas J. Cerf

Wigner-positive quantum states have the peculiarity to admit a Wigner function that is a genuine probability distribution over phase space. The Shannon differential entropy of the Wigner function of such states -- called Wigner entropy for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Zacharie Van Herstraeten , Nicolas J. Cerf

We consider the Wigner function evolution of Fock states $|n\rangle$ linearly coupled to a Markovian bath of oscillators. In the absence of environmental coupling, apparent ``quantumness'' increases with $n$, but the presence of any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-28 Andrew C. McClung , Tyler E. Keating , Adam T. C. Steege , Arjendu K. Pattanayak

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

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 present further progress, in the form of analytical results, on the Wigner entropy conjecture set forth in https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.104.042211 and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1751-8121/aa852f/meta. Said…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Qipeng Qian , Christos N. Gagatsos

It is common knowledge that the Wigner function of a quantum state may admit negative values, so that it cannot be viewed as a genuine probability density. Here, we examine the difficulty in finding an entropy-like functional in phase space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Nicolas J. Cerf , Anaelle Hertz , Zacharie Van Herstraeten

On the basis of the phase states, we present the correct integral expressions of the two number-phase Wigner functions discovered so far. These correct forms are derived from those defined in the extended Fock space with negative number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kiyotaka Kakazu

We introduce an efficient method to reconstruct the Wigner function of many-mode continuous variable systems. It is based on convex optimization with semidefinite programs, and also includes a version of the maximum entropy principle, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-28 Ludmila A. S. Botelho , Reinaldo O. Vianna

We study the distribution (w.r.t. the vacuum state) of family of partial sums Sm of position operators on weakly monotone Fock space. We show that any single operator has the Wigner law, and an arbitrary family of them (with the index set…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Vitonofrio Crismale , Maria Elena Griseta , janusz Wysoczanski

The Wigner function was introduced as an attempt to describe quantum-mechanical fields with the tools inherited from classical statistical mechanics. In particular, it is widely used to describe the properties of radiation fields. In fact,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Juan Camilo López Carreño

There are quantum states of light that can be expressed as finite superpositions of Fock states (FSFS). We demonstrate the nonclassicality of an arbitrary FSFS by means of its phase space distributions such as the Wigner function and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Anirban Pathak , J. Banerji

We evaluate the gravity-induced negativity volume of the generalized Wigner function in a hybrid system consisting of a particle in a two-localized superposition state and an oscillator. The generalized Wigner function can capture the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Daisuke Miki , Akira Matsumura , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

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

The presence of negative values in the Wigner quasiprobability distribution is deemed one of the hallmarks of nonclassical phenomena in quantum systems. Here we demonstrate a classical model of squeezed light that, when combined with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Brian R. La Cour

We propose a new test of local realism based on correlation measurements of continuum valued functions of positions and momenta, known as modular variables. The Wigner representation of these observables are bounded in phase space, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 Atul S. Arora , Ali Asadian

We study the properties of the discrete Wigner distribution for two qubits introduced by Wotters. In particular, we analyze the entanglement properties within the Wigner distribution picture by considering the negativity of the Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Franco , V. Penna

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

By introducing the thermo entangled state representation, we convert the calculation of Wigner function (WF) of density operator to an overlap between "two pure" states in a two-mode enlarged Fock space. Furthermore, we derive a new WF…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Li-yun Hu , Zheng-lu Duan , Xue-xiang Xu , Zi-sheng Wang

The negativity of the Wigner function is discussed as a measure of the non classicality and the quantum interference pattern obtained therein as a possible measure of the entanglement between the two modes of the vortex states. This measure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-05 Anindya Banerji , Ravindra P. Singh , Abir Bandyopadhyay
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