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Quasiprobability representations, such as the Wigner function, play an important role in various research areas. The inevitable appearance of negativity in such representations is often regarded as a signature of nonclassicality, which has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Huangjun Zhu

The question of when the Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability serves as the most appropriate description for quantum measurements has remained unresolved, particularly across different measurement strengths. While known to generate anomalous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Bo Zhang , Yusuf Turek

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

The computational abilities of theories within the generalised probabilistic theory framework has been the subject of much recent study. Such investigations aim to gain an understanding of the possible connections between physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Ciarán M. Gilligan-Lee

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

In the present report we discuss measures of classicality/quantumness of states of finite-dimensional quantum systems, which are based on a deviation of quasiprobability distributions from true statistical distributions. Particularly, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 N. Abbasli , V. Abgaryan , M. Bures , A. Khvedelidze , I. Rogojin , A. Torosyan

Using the known possibility to associate the completely positive maps with density matrices and recent results on expressing the density matrices with sets of classical probability distributions of dichotomic random variables we construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Ashot Avanesov , Vladimir I. Man'ko

Recent work has revealed the central role played by the Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability (KDQ) as a tool to properly account for non-classical features in the context of condensed matter physics (scrambling, dynamical phase transitions)…

This paper is an introduction to diagrammatic methods for representing quantum processes and quantum computing. We review basic notions for quantum information and quantum computing. We discuss topological diagrams and some issues about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Louis H. Kauffman , Samuel J. Lomonaco

The quasidistributions corresponding to the diagonal representation of quantum states are discussed within the framework of operator-symbol construction. The tomographic-probability distribution describing the quantum state in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Vladimir I. Man'ko , Giuseppe Marmo , E. C. George Sudarshan

The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability distribution is known for its role in quantum metrology, thermodynamics, as well as quantum foundations. In this work we classify unitary evolutions that preserve KD positivity. We identify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Jędrzej Burkat , Sergii Strelchuk

Quantum superposition says that any physical system simultaneously exists in all of its possible states, the number of which is exponential in the number of entities composing the system. The strength of presence of each possible state in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Gerard J. Rinkus

In this work, we consider a probability representation of quantum dynamics for finite-dimensional quantum systems with the use of pseudostochastic maps acting on true probability distributions. These probability distributions are obtained…

The phenomenon of quantum superposition manifests in two distinct ways: it either spreads out across non-orthogonal basis states or remains concealed within their overlaps. Despite its profound implications, the resource theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Onur Pusuluk

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

Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability is a quantum analog of classical phase space probability. It offers an informationally complete representation of quantum state wherein the quantumness associated with quantum noncommutativity manifests…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Agung Budiyono

Majorization theory is a powerful mathematical tool to compare the disorder in distributions, with wide-ranging applications in many fields including mathematics, physics, information theory, and economics. While majorization theory…

Husimi distributions and Wigner distributions are well-known quasi-probability distributions which appear in several contexts. In this paper, we show some remarkable aspects of these distribution functions related to geometric structures of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-28 Ryo Harada

The aim of this paper is to apply a contextual probabilistic model (in the spirit of Mackey, Gudder, Ballentine) to represent and to generalize some results of quantum logic about possible macroscopic quantum-like (QL) behaviour. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-13 Andrei Khrennikov

Just a few years after the inception of quantum mechanics, there has been a research program using the nonclassical values of some quasiprobability distributions to delineate the nonclassical aspects of quantum phenomena. In particular, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Agung Budiyono , Joel F. Sumbowo , Mohammad K. Agusta , Bagus E. B. Nurhandoko