Quantum backflow effect and nonclassicality

DOI10.1142/S0219749916500325MaRDI QIDQ3181148zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Francesco Albarelli, Tommaso Guaita, Matteo G. A. Paris

Publication date 22 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07141

zbMATH Keywords

Wigner functionnonclassicalityquasiprobability distributionsbackflow effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: The quantum backflow effect is a counterintuitive behavior of the probability current of a free particle, which may be negative even for states with vanishing negative momentum component. Here we address the notion of nonclassicality arising from the backflow effect, i.e. from the negativity of the probability current, and analyze its relationships with the notion of nonclassicality based on the negativity of the Wigner function. Our results suggest that backflow is linked to a different, and in fact more restrictive, notion of nonclassicality, the negativity of the Wigner function being only a necessary prerequisite for its occurrence. This hierarchical structure may be confirmed by looking at the addition of thermal noise, which more easily destroys the negativity of the probability current than the negativity of the Wigner function itself.

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