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Contextuality and negativity of the Wigner function are two notions of non-classicality for quantum systems. Howard, Wallman, Veitch and Emerson proved recently that these two notions coincide for qudits in odd prime dimension. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Nicolas Delfosse , Cihan Okay , Juan Bermejo-Vega , Dan E. Browne , Robert Raussendorf

Quasiprobability has become an increasingly popular notion for characterising non-classicality in quantum information, thermodynamics, and metrology. Two important distributions with non-positive quasiprobability are the Wigner function and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Jérôme Denis , Jack Davis , Robert B. Mann , John Martin

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 negativity and genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) are key nonclassical resources that enable computational advantages and broader quantum-information tasks. In this work, we prove two theorems for multimode continuous-variable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Lin Htoo Zaw , Jiajie Guo , Qiongyi He , Matteo Fadel , Shuheng Liu

Magic states are key ingredients in schemes to realize universal fault-tolerant quantum computation. Theories of magic states attempt to quantify this computational element via monotones and determine how these states may be efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-28 Nikolaos Koukoulekidis , David Jennings

We study the possibility of giving a classical interpretation to quantum projective measurements for a particle described by a pure Gaussian state whose Wigner function is non-negative. We analyze the case of a projective measurement which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amir Kalev , Ady Mann , Pier A. Mello , Michael Revzen

It is a classical result of Wigner that for an hermitian matrix with independent entries on and above the diagonal, the mean empirical eigenvalue distribution converges weakly to the semicircle law as matrix size tends to infinity. In this…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-17 Katrin Hofmann-Credner , Michael Stolz

Just as a coherent state may be considered as a quantum point, its restriction to a factor space of the full Hilbert space can be interpreted as a quantum plane. The overlap of such a factor coherent state with a full pure state is akin to…

The operator wavefunction provides a fine-grained description of quantum chaos and of the irreversible growth of simple operators into increasingly complex ones. Remarkably, at finite temperature this wavefunction can acquire a phase that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Rishik Perugu , Bryce Kobrin , Michael O. Flynn , Thomas Scaffidi

We study the evolution of the hybrid entangled states in a bipartite (ultra) strongly coupled qubit-oscillator system. Using the generalized rotating wave approximation the reduced density matrices of the qubit and the oscillator are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 R. Chakrabarti , V. Yogesh

The Lindblad equation governs general markovian evolution of the density operator in an open quantum system. An expression for the rate of change of the Wigner function as a sum of integrals is one of the forms of the Weyl representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

Krylov complexity, a quantum complexity measure which uniquely characterizes the spread of a quantum state or an operator, has recently been studied in the context of quantum chaos. However, the definitiveness of this measure as a chaos…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Sreeram PG , J. Bharathi Kannan , Ranjan Modak , S. Aravinda

We show how to represent the state and the evolution of a quantum computer (or any system with an $N$--dimensional Hilbert space) in phase space. For this purpose we use a discrete version of the Wigner function which, for arbitrary $N$, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pablo Bianucci , Cesar Miquel , Juan Pablo Paz , Marcos Saraceno

We present the generalization of the CNC formalism, based on closed and noncontextual sets of Pauli observables, to the setting of odd-prime-dimensional qudits. By introducing new CNC-type phase space point operators, we construct a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Michael Zurel , Arne Heimendahl

In quantum many-body systems, time-evolved states typically remain confined to a smaller region of the Hilbert space known as the $\textit{Krylov subspace}$. The time evolution can be mapped onto a one-dimensional problem of a particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 Hugo A. Camargo , Yichao Fu , Viktor Jahnke , Keun-Young Kim , Kuntal Pal

We propose the Wigner separability entropy as a measure of complexity of a quantum state. This quantity measures the number of terms that effectively contribute to the Schmidt decomposition of the Wigner function with respect to a chosen…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 Giuliano Benenti , Gabriel G. Carlo , Tomaz Prosen

States with a negative Wigner function, a significant subclass of nonclassical states, serve as a valuable resource for various quantum information processing tasks. Here, we provide a criterion for detecting such quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Bivas Mallick , Sudip Chakrabarty , Saheli Mukherjee , Ananda G. Maity , A. S. Majumdar

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

We introduce a numerical method to simulate nonlinear open quantum dynamics of a particle in situations where its state undergoes significant expansion in phase space while generating small quantum features at the phase-space Planck scale.…

In a numerical study, we investigate the steady-state generation of nonclassical states of light from a coherently driven two-level atom in a one-dimensional waveguide. Specifically, we look for states with a negative Wigner function, since…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Ingrid Strandberg , Yong Lu , Fernando Quijandría , Göran Johansson