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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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Kok Chuan Tan , Souradeep Sasmal

We define the Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability representation of quantum mechanics associated with the Fourier transform over second countable locally compact abelian groups. We discuss its link with the Kohn-Nirenberg quantization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Matéo Spriet

We develop a general framework to investigate fluctuations of non-commuting observables. To this end, we consider the Keldysh quasi-probability distribution (KQPD). This distribution provides a measurement-independent description of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 Patrick P. Hofer

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…

We employ the operational quasiprobability (OQ) as a work distribution, which reproduces the Jarzynski equality and yields the average work consistent with the classical definition. The OQ distribution can be experimentally implemented…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jeongwoo Jae , Junghee Ryu , Hoon Ryu

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.…

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 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

We show that a quantum state may be represented as the sum of a joint probability and a complex quantum modification term. The joint probability and the modification term can both be observed in successive projective measurements. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-21 Lars M. Johansen

A quantum thermodynamic system can conserve non-commuting observables, but the consequences of this phenomenon on relaxation are still not fully understood. We investigate this problem by leveraging an observable-dependent approach to…

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 characterization and a quantification of general quantum correlation which is exhibited even by a separable (unentangled) mixed bipartite state in terms of the nonclassical values of the associated Kirkwood-Dirac (KD)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Agung Budiyono , Bobby E. Gunara , Bagus E. B. Nurhandoko , Hermawan K. Dipojono

Quasiprobability distributions (QDs) in open quantum systems are investigated for $SU(2)$, spin like systems, having relevance to quantum optics and information. In this work, effect of both quantum non-demolition (QND) and dissipative open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Kishore Thapliyal , Subhashish Banerjee , Anirban Pathak , S. Omkar , V. Ravishankar

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 density matrix positivity is a natural counterpart of unitarity. The resulting constraints for various parton distribution and correlations are considered. Their compatibility with leading order QCD evolution is guaranteed by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 O. V. Teryaev

We introduce an experimental test for ruling out classical explanations for the statistics obtained when measuring arbitrary observables at arbitrary times using individual detectors. This test requires some trust in the measurements,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Patrick P. Potts

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

We examine the notion of nonclassicality in terms of quasiprobability distributions. In particular, we do not only ask if a specific quasiprobability can be interpreted as a classical probability density, but require that characteristic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 Thomas Kiesel

In quadratic fermionic models we determine a quantum correction to the work statistics after a sudden and a time-dependent driving. Such a correction lies in the non-commutativity of the initial quantum state and the time-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Alessandro Santini , Andrea Solfanelli , Stefano Gherardini , Mario Collura

The dynamical equation of quantum mechanics are rewritten in form of dynamical equations for the measurable, positive marginal distribution of the shifted, rotated and squeezed quadrature introduced in the so called "symplectic tomography".…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Stefano Mancini , Vladimir I. Man'ko , Paolo Tombesi