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Quantum measurements are crucial for quantum technologies and give rise to some of the most classically counter-intuitive quantum phenomena. As such, the ability to certify the presence of genuinely non-classical joint measurements in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-13 Ciarán M. Lee

A major challenge in quantum information is characterizing entanglement, for which entanglement witnesses offer effective means of detecting quantum correlations. We introduce a hybrid quantum-classical framework that learns a nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Mohammad Rezaei Shokou , Hossein Davoodi Yeganeh

Several definitions of classicality are considered, such as P-representability, generalized coherent states and separable states. These notions are treated under a simple and general definition based on convex sets, which enables the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 F. E. S. Steinhoff

We devise a new class of criteria to certify the nonclassicality of photon- and phonon-number statistics. Our criteria extend and strengthen the broadly used Klyshko's criteria, which require knowledge of only a finite set of Fock-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Luca Innocenti , Lukáš Lachman , Radim Filip

In quantum optics, measurement statistics -- for example, photocounting statistics -- are considered nonclassical if they cannot be reproduced with statistical mixtures of classical radiation fields. We have formulated a necessary and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 V. S. Kovtoniuk , E. V. Stolyarov , O. V. Kliushnichenko , A. A. Semenov

The nonclassicality of quantum states is a fundamental resource for quantum technologies and quantum information tasks in general. In particular, a pivotal aspect of quantum states lies in their coherence properties, encoded in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Luca Innocenti , Lukas Lachman , Radim Filip

We establish the nonclassicality of continuous-variable states as a resource for quantum metrology. Based on the quantum Fisher information of multimode quadratures, we introduce the metrological power as a measure of nonclassicality with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Hyukjoon Kwon , Kok Chuan Tan , Tyler Volkoff , Hyunseok Jeong

We derive and implement a general method to characterize the nonclassicality in compound discrete- and continuous-variable systems. For this purpose, we introduce the operational notion of conditional hybrid nonclassicality which relates to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-29 E. Agudelo , J. Sperling , L. S. Costanzo , M. Bellini , A. Zavatta , W. Vogel

Practically applicable criteria for the nonclassicality of quantum states are formulated in terms of different types of moments. For this purpose the moments of the creation and annihilation operators, of two quadratures, and of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. V. Shchukin , W. Vogel

A bipartite quantum system in a mixed state can exhibit nonclassical correlations, which can go beyond quantum entanglement. While quantum discord is the standard measure of quantifying such general quantum correlations, the nonclassicality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Amandeep Singh , Arvind , Kavita Dorai

In this review, we introduce the notion of quantum nonclassicality of light, and the role of nonclassicality in optical quantum metrology. The first part of the paper focuses on defining and characterizing the notion of nonclassicality and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Kok Chuan Tan , Hyunseok Jeong

Contextuality is considered as an intrinsic signature of non-classicality, and a crucial resource for achieving unique advantages of quantum information processing. However, recently there have been debates on whether classical fields may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-28 Aonan Zhang , Huichao Xu , Jie Xie , Han Zhang , Brian J. Smith , M. S. Kim , Lijian Zhang

In a recent work, arXiv:2503.05884, we proposed a unified notion of nonclassicality that applies to arbitrary processes in quantum theory, including individual quantum states, measurements, channels, set of these, etc. This notion is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Yujie Zhang , Yìlè Yīng , David Schmid

Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental information processing task that serves as a building block for numerous applications and provides implications at the foundational level. In this work, we consider minimum error discrimination…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Tim Achenbach , Leevi Leppäjärvi , Hanwool Lee , Teiko Heinosaari

Nonclassicality filters provide a universal method to visualize the nonclassicality of arbitrary quantum states of light through negativities of a regularized Glauber-Sudarshan $P$ function, also denoted as nonclassicality quasiprobability.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 B. Kühn , W. Vogel

Nonclassical states of light play a central role in many quantum information protocols. Their quantum features have been exploited to improve the readout of information from digital memories, modelled as arrays of microscopic beam splitters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Gaetana Spedalieri , Cosmo Lupo , Stefano Pirandola

We establish a method of directly measuring and estimating non-classicality - operationally defined in terms of the distinguishability of a given state from one with a positive Wigner function. It allows to certify non-classicality, based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-03 A. Mari , K. Kieling , B. Melholt Nielsen , E. S. Polzik , J. Eisert

We propose a legitimate and easily computable nonclassicality indicator for the states of electromagnetic fields based on the standard deviation in the measurement of the homodyne rotated quadrature operator. The proposed nonclassicality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 M. Rohith , S. Kannan , C. Sudheesh

We address the problem of measuring nonclassicality in continuous-variable bosonic systems without having access to a known reference signal. To this end, we construct broader classes of criteria for nonclassicality which allow us to…

Recent progress in theories of quantum information has determined nonclassical correlation defined differently from widely-used entanglement as an important property to evaluate computation and communication with mixed quantum states. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-13 Robabeh Rahimi , Akira SaiToh