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The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability distribution can describe any quantum state with respect to the eigenbases of two observables $A$ and $B$. KD distributions behave similarly to classical joint probability distributions but can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Christopher Langrenez , David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur , Stephan De Bièvre

We introduce a general method for the construction of quasiprobability representations for arbitrary notions of quantum coherence. Our technique yields a nonnegative probability distribution for the decomposition of any classical state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 J. Sperling , I. A. Walmsley

We investigate features of the quasi-joint-probability distribution for finite-state quantum systems, especially the two-state and three-state quantum systems, comparing different types of quasi-joint-probability distributions based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Shun Umekawa , Jaeha Lee , Naomichi Hatano

The Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability distribution, intimately connected with the quantum correlation function of two observables measured at distinct times, is becoming increasingly relevant for fundamental physics and quantum technologies.…

In this tutorial, we present the definition, interpretation and properties of some of the main quasiprobabilities that can describe the statistics of measurement outcomes evaluated at two or more times. Such statistics incorporate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Stefano Gherardini , Gabriele De Chiara

The Kirkwood-Dirac distribution, serving as an informationally complete representation of a quantum state, has recently garnered increasing attention. We investigate the Kirkwood-Dirac classicality with respect to mutually unbiased bases.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Yan Liu , Zhihua Guo , Zhihao Ma , Shao-Ming Fei

The study of measurements in quantum mechanics exposes many of the ways in which the quantum world is different. For example, one of the hallmarks of quantum mechanics is that observables may be incompatible, implying among other things…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Emery Doucet , Sebastian Deffner

Among the many quasiprobability representations of quantum mechanics, the family of Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) representations has come to the foreground in recent years. Each such KD representation is determined by the choice of two complementary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Matéo Spriet , Christopher Langrenez , Raymond Brummelhuis , Stephan De Bièvre

We propose a novel approach to quantify quantum coherence which, contrary to the previous ones, does not rely on resource theory but rather on ontological considerations. In this framework, coherence is understood as the ability for a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Antoine Soulas

Kirkwood-Dirac representations of quantum states are increasingly finding use in many areas within quantum theory. Usually, representations of this sort are only applied to provide a representation of quantum states (as complex functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 David Schmid , Roberto D. Baldijão , Yìlè Yīng , Rafael Wagner , John H. Selby

We determine the Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability (KDQ) distribution associated to the stochastic instances of internal energy variations for the quantum system and environment particles in coherent Markovian collision models. In the case…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Marco Pezzutto , Gabriele De Chiara , Stefano Gherardini

We discuss the (re-)construction of quasiprobability representations from generic measurements, including noisy ones. Based on the measurement under study, quasiprobabilities and the associated concept of nonclassicality are introduced. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Jan Sperling , Laura Ares , Elizabeth Agudelo

Given two observables $A$ and $B$, one can associate to every quantum state a Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability distribution. KD distributions are like joint classical probabilities except that they can have negative or nonreal values,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Christopher Langrenez , Stephan De Bièvre , David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur

Quantifying coherence is a key task in both quantum mechanical theory and practical applications. Here, a reliable quantum coherence measure is presented by utilizing the quantum skew information of the state of interest subject to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Chang-shui Yu

Quasiprobability representations are well-established tools in quantum information science, with applications ranging from the classical simulability of quantum computation to quantum process tomography, quantum error correction, and…

Complex numbers, intrinsic to the formulation of quantum theory, play a pivotal role in enabling advantages across a broad range of quantum information-processing tasks. Despite their fundamental importance, practical and scalable criteria…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Sudip Chakrabarty , Saheli Mukherjee , Ananda G. Maity , Bivas Mallick

We develop a framework based on the Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability distribution to quantify the contribution of coherence to work extraction during generic, cyclic quantum evolutions. In particular, we focus on ``anomalous processes'',…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Francesco Perciavalle , Nicola Lo Gullo , Francesco Plastina

Being the key resource in quantum physics, the proper quantification of coherence is of utmost importance. Amid complex-looking functionals in quantifying coherence, we set forth a simple and easy-to-evaluate approach: Principal diagonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Manis Hazra , Debabrata Goswami

An issue which has attracted increasing attention in contemporary researches are Kirkwood--Dirac quasiprobabilities. List of their use includes many questions of quantum physics. Applications of complex tight frames in quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Alexey E. Rastegin

Quantum discord (QD) reveals the nonclassical nature of correlations in bipartite quantum states, going beyond the entanglement-separability paradigm. In this article we discuss the suitability of QD in what concern its possible asymmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-14 J. Maziero , L. C. Celeri , R. M. Serra