A measure of non-gaussianity for quantum states

DOI10.1007/S11128-011-0314-2MaRDI QIDQ452243zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

Publication date 20 September 2012

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

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

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)

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.

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