Tutorial Notes on One-Party and Two-Party Gaussian States

DOI10.1142/S0219749903000206zbMATH Open1067.81544arXivquant-ph/0307196MaRDI QIDQ4819262FDOQ4819262

Authors: Berthold-Georg Englert, Krzysztof Wódkiewicz 

Publication date: 24 September 2004

Published in: International Journal of Quantum Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Gaussian states -- or, more generally, Gaussian operators -- play an important role in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Science, both in discussions about conceptual issues and in practical applications. We describe, in a tutorial manner, a systematic operator method for first characterizing such states and then investigating their properties. The central numerical quantities are the covariance matrix that specifies the characteristic function of the state, and the closely related matrices associated with Wigner's and Glauber's phase space functions. For pedagogical reasons, we restrict the discussion to one-dimensional and two-dimensional Gaussian states, for which we provide illustrating and instructive examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0307196

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zbMATH Keywords

entanglementseparabilityGaussian statespositivityEPR correlationGaussian operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Coherent states (81R30) Numerical methods for discrete and fast Fourier transforms (65T50)

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