Negativity of quasiprobability distributions as a measure of nonclassicality

We demonstrate that the negative volume of any s-parametrized quasiprobability, including the Glauber-Sudashan P function, can be consistently defined and forms a continuous hierarchy of nonclassicality measures that are linear optical monotones. These measures belong to an operational resource theo...

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Main Authors: Tan, Kok Chuan, Choi, Seongjeon, Jeong, Hyunseok
Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138232
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:We demonstrate that the negative volume of any s-parametrized quasiprobability, including the Glauber-Sudashan P function, can be consistently defined and forms a continuous hierarchy of nonclassicality measures that are linear optical monotones. These measures belong to an operational resource theory of nonclassicality based on linear optical operations. The negativity of the Glauber-Sudashan P function, in particular, can be shown to have an operational interpretation as the robustness of nonclassicality. We then introduce an approximate linear optical monotone, and we show that this nonclassicality quantifier is computable and is able to identify the nonclassicality of nearly all nonclassical states.