English
Related papers

Related papers: A structure theorem for complex-valued quasiprobab…

200 papers

Several finite dimensional quasi-probability representations of quantum states have been proposed to study various problems in quantum information theory and quantum foundations. These representations are often defined only on restricted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-07 Christopher Ferrie , Joseph Emerson

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 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

This article comprises a review of both the quasi-probability representations of infinite-dimensional quantum theory (including the Wigner function) and the more recently defined quasi-probability representations of finite-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-18 Christopher Ferrie

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

The quasiprobability representation of quantum states addresses two main concerns, the identification of nonclassical features and the decomposition of the density operator. While the former aspect is a main focus of current research, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-26 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

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

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

Temporal quantum states generalize the multipartite density operator formalism to the time domain, enabling a unified treatment of quantum systems with both timelike and spacelike correlations. Despite a growing body of temporal state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Zhian Jia , Kavan Modi , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

Building on earlier work, we further develop a formalism based on the mathematical theory of frames that defines a set of possible phase-space or quasi-probability representations of finite-dimensional quantum systems. We prove that an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-23 Christopher Ferrie , Joseph Emerson

Recent years have seen the Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) distribution come to the forefront as a powerful quasi-probability distribution for analysing quantum mechanics. The KD distribution allows tools from statistics and probability theory to be…

A unification of the set of quasiprobability representations using the mathematical theory of frames was recently developed for quantum systems with finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, in which it was proven that such representations require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-18 Christopher Ferrie , Ryan Morris , Joseph Emerson

Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability is a quantum analog of phase space probability of classical statistical mechanics, allowing negative or/and nonreal values. It gives an informationally complete representation of a quantum state. Recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Agung Budiyono , Hermawan K. Dipojono

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

The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability distribution is a fundamental representation for quantum states and has been widely applied in quantum metrology, quantum chaos, weak values in recent years. A quantum state is KD-classical if its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Lin-Yan Cai , Ying-Hui Yang , Zhu-Jun Zheng

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

The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability describes measurement statistics of joint quantum observables, and has generated great interest as prominent indicators of non-classical features in various quantum information processing tasks. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Lijun Liu , Shuming Cheng

Quasi-probabilities appear across diverse areas of physics, but their conceptual foundations remain unclear: they are often treated merely as computational tools, and operations like conditioning and Bayes' theorem become ambiguous. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Jacopo Surace

There is a long history of representing a quantum state using a quasi-probability distribution: a distribution allowing negative values. In this paper we extend such representations to deal with quantum channels. The result is a convex,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 John van de Wetering
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›