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We show that the number of harmonics of the Wigner function, recently proposed as a measure of quantum complexity, can be also used to characterize quantum phase transitions. The non-analytic behavior of this quantity in the neighborhood of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Pinquan Qin , Wen-ge Wang , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati

The emergence of classical behavior from quantum mechanics as Planck's constant $\hbar$ approaches zero remains a fundamental challenge in physics [1-3]. This paper introduces a novel approach employing deep neural networks to directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Kamran Majid

The basic idea of quantum computing is surprisingly similar to that of kernel methods in machine learning, namely to efficiently perform computations in an intractably large Hilbert space. In this paper we explore some theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Maria Schuld , Nathan Killoran

The central aim of the thesis is to examine how non-classical resources in finite-dimensional quantum systems can be identified, characterized, and protected for practical use in the presence of realistic noise. Using the discrete Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Jai Lalita

Time dependence for barrier penetration is considered in the phase space. An asymptotic phase-space propagator for nonrelativistic scattering on a one - dimensional barrier is constructed. The propagator has a form universal for various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. S. Marinov , Bilha Segev

What is the origin of quantum computational advantage? Providing answers to this far-reaching question amounts to identifying the key properties, or quantum resources, that distinguish quantum computers from their classical counterparts,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Jack Davis , Nicolas Fabre , Ulysse Chabaud

It is common knowledge that the Wigner function of a quantum state may admit negative values, so that it cannot be viewed as a genuine probability density. Here, we examine the difficulty in finding an entropy-like functional in phase space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Nicolas J. Cerf , Anaelle Hertz , Zacharie Van Herstraeten

Within the quantum phase representation we derive Heisenberg limits, in closed form, for N00N states and two other classes of states that can perform better in terms of local performance metrics relevant for multiply-peaked distributions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Scott Roger Shepard , Frederick Ira Moxley , Jonathan P. Dowling

An extension to computational mechanics complexity measure is proposed in order to tackle quantum states complexity quantification. The method is applicable to any $n-$partite state of qudits through some simple modifications. A Werner…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-10-28 Yuri Campbell , José Roberto Castilho Piqueira

We present the reconstruction of the Wigner function of a classical phase-sensitive state, a pulsed coherent state, by measurements of the distributions of detected-photons of the state displaced by a coherent probe field. By using a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Maria Bondani , Alessia Allevi , Alessandra Andreoni

We present efficient circuits that can be used for the phase space tomography of quantum states. The circuits evaluate individual values or selected averages of the Wigner, Kirkwood and Husimi distributions. These quantum gate arrays can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Juan Pablo Paz , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Marcos Saraceno

Conventional quantum computing entails a geometry based on the description of an n-qubit state using 2^{n} infinite precision complex numbers denoting a vector in a Hilbert space. Such numbers are in general uncomputable using any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrew J. Hanson , Gerardo Ortiz , Amr Sabry , Yu-Tsung Tai

We study degenerate three photon down conversion as a potential scheme for generating nonclassical states of light which exhibit clear signatures of phase space interference. The Wigner function representing these states contains an…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-30 Konrad Banaszek , Peter L. Knight

We derive an analytical expression of a Wigner function that approximately describes the time evolution of the one-dimensional motion of a particle in a nonharmonic potential. Our method involves two exact frame transformations, accounting…

A new definition of the Wigner function for quantum fields coupled to curved space--time and an external Yang--Mills field is studied on the example of a scalar and a Dirac fields. The definition uses the formalism of the tangent bundles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Oleg A. Fonarev

Given a real-valued phase-space function, it is a nontrivial task to determine whether it corresponds to a Wigner distribution for a physically acceptable quantum state. This topic has been of fundamental interest for long, and in a modern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hyunchul Nha

In this work, we develop a highly efficient representation of functions and differential operators based on Fourier analysis. Using this representation, we create a variational hybrid quantum algorithm to solve static, Schr\"odinger-type,…

Electromagnetic modes are instrumental in building quantum machines. In this experiment, we introduce a method to manipulate these modes by effectively controlling their phase space. Preventing access to a single energy level, corresponding…

Recently a new formulation of quantum mechanics has been suggested which describes systems by means of ensembles of classical particles provided with a sign. This novel approach mainly consists of two steps: the computation of the Wigner…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Jean Michel Sellier

We discuss questions pertaining to the definition of `momentum', `momentum space', `phase space', and `Wigner distributions'; for finite dimensional quantum systems. For such systems, where traditional concepts of `momenta' established for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Chaturvedi , E. Ercolessi , G. Marmo , G. Morandi , N. Mukunda , R. Simon