A measure of non-gaussianity for quantum states

DOI10.1007/S11128-011-0314-2zbMATH Open1253.81030arXiv0812.2800OpenAlexW2073939022MaRDI QIDQ452243FDOQ452243

Authors: J. Solomon Ivan, M. Sanjay Kumar, R. Simon 

Publication date: 20 September 2012

Published in: Quantum Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 $Q(alpha),alphain{calC}^n$. Since any measure of non-Gaussianity is necessarily an attempt at making a quantitative statement on the departure of the shape of the $Q$ function from Gaussian, any good measure of non-Gaussianity should be invariant under transformations which do not alter the shape of the $Q$ functions, namely displacements, passage through passive linear systems, and uniform scaling of all the phase space variables: $Q(alpha)olambd{a}^{2n}Q(lambdaalpha)$. Our measure which meets this `shape criterion' is computed for a few families of states, and the results are contrasted with existing measures of non-Gaussianity. The shape criterion implies, in particular, that the non-Gaussianity of the photon-added thermal states should be independent of temperature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2800

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zbMATH Keywords

Wehrl entropy\(Q\)-functionnon-Gaussianity measurephoton-added thermal statesquasiprobability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum optics (81V80) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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