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Non-Gaussian entanglement is a promising resource in various quantum tasks. A recently defined class identifies entanglement that cannot be generated by applying Gaussian operations to separable inputs. To further explore the entanglement…

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Quantum Non-Gaussian states are considered as a useful resource for many tasks in quantum information processing, from quantum metrology and quantum sensing to quantum communication and quantum key distribution. Another useful tool that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Seid Koudia , Abdelhakim Gharbi

Non Gaussian states and processes are useful resources in quantum information with continuous variables. An experimentally accessible criterion has been proposed to measure the degree of non Gaussianity of quantum states, based on the…

Quantum computers promise to dramatically outperform their classical counterparts. However, the non-classical resources enabling such computational advantages are challenging to pinpoint, as it is not a single resource but the subtle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Ulysse Chabaud , Mattia Walschaers

Gaussian cosmic microwave background skies are fully specified by the power spectrum. The conventional method of characterizing non-Gaussian skies is to evaluate higher order moments, the n-point functions and their Fourier transforms. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Pedro G. Ferreira , Joao Magueijo

Quantum non-Gaussianity is a key resource for quantum advantage in continuous-variable systems. We introduce a general framework to quantify non-Gaussianity based on correlation generation: two copies of a state become correlated at a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Oliver Hahn , Ryuji Takagi

We consider Gaussian quantum circuits supplemented with non-Gaussian input states and derive sufficient conditions for efficient classical strong simulation of these circuits. In particular, we generalise the stellar representation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Ulysse Chabaud , Giulia Ferrini , Frédéric Grosshans , Damian Markham

We address the issue of quantifying the non-Gaussian character of a bosonic quantum state and introduce a non-Gaussianity measure based on the Hilbert-Schmidt distance between the state under examination and a reference Gaussian state. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marco G. Genoni , Matteo G. A. Paris , Konrad Banaszek

Non-Gaussian bosonic states are ubiquitous in interacting light--matter systems, many-body platforms, and relativistic quantum field settings, but their quantitative characterization is hindered by the infinite-dimensional Hilbert space and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Federico Centrone , Juan Pablo Paz , Augusto Roncaglia

Generation of high fidelity photonic non-Gaussian states is a crucial ingredient for universal quantum computation using continous-variable platforms, yet it remains a challenge to do so efficiently. We present a general framework for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Daiqin Su , Casey R. Myers , Krishna Kumar Sabapathy

We propose efficient algorithms for classically simulating Gaussian unitaries and measurements applied to non-Gaussian initial states. The constructions are based on decomposing the non-Gaussian states into linear combinations of Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Oliver Hahn , Ryuji Takagi , Giulia Ferrini , Hayata Yamasaki

The stellar hierarchy of quantum states of light classifies the states according to the Fock-state resources that are required for their generation together with unitary Gaussian operations. States with stellar rank n can be also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Jaromír Fiurášek

We show that the consistent application of the rules of quantum mechanics to cosmological systems inevitably results in the so-called multiverse states in which neither the background spacetime nor the inhomogeneous perturbation are in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Hervé Bergeron , Przemysław Małkiewicz , Patrick Peter

We study the properties of a non-Gaussian density matrix for a O(N) scalar field in the context of the incomplete description picture. This is of relevance for studies of decoherence and entropy production in quantum field theory. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-13 F. Gautier , J. Serreau

Non-Gaussian states are essential resources in quantum information processing. In this work, we investigate methods for quantifying bosonic non-Gaussianity in many-body systems. Building on recent theoretical insights into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Kaifeng Bu , Bikun Li

We propose an experimental method of recognizing quantum non-Gaussian multiphoton states. This is a native quantum property of Fock states, the fundamental quantum states with a constant number of particles. Our method allows experimental…

We propose a measure of non-Gaussianity for quantum states of a system of $n$ oscillator modes. Our measure is based on the quasi-probability $Q(\alpha), \alpha\in{\cal C}^n$. Since any measure of non-Gaussianity is necessarily an attempt…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-16 J. Solomon Ivan , M. Sanjay Kumar , R. Simon

We address detection of quantum non-Gaussian states, i.e. nonclassical states that cannot be expressed as a convex mixture of Gaussian states, and present a method to derive a new family of criteria based on generic linear functionals. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-23 Catherine Hughes , Marco G. Genoni , Tommaso Tufarelli , Matteo G. A. Paris , M. S. Kim

Graph states are the backbone of measurement-based continuous-variable quantum computation. However, experimental realisations of these states induce Gaussian measurement statistics for the field quadratures, which poses a barrier to obtain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Mattia Walschaers , Supratik Sarkar , Valentina Parigi , Nicolas Treps

We provide a graphical method to describe and analyze non-Gaussian quantum states using a hypergraph framework. These states are pivotal resources for quantum computing, communication, and metrology, but their characterization is hindered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Lina Vandré , Boxuan Jing , Yu Xiang , Otfried Gühne , Qiongyi He