Conditions tighter than noncommutation needed for nonclassicality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04468v2
• Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 12:53:06 GMT
• Title: Conditions tighter than noncommutation needed for nonclassicality
• Authors: David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur, Jacob Chevalier Drori, Nicole Yunger Halpern
• Abstract summary: The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) distribution has been employed to study nonclassicality across quantum physics. This work resolves long-standing questions about nonclassicality and may be used to engineer quantum advantages.
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• Abstract: Kirkwood discovered in 1933, and Dirac discovered in 1945, a representation of quantum states that has undergone a renaissance recently. The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) distribution has been employed to study nonclassicality across quantum physics, from metrology to chaos to the foundations of quantum theory. The KD distribution is a quasiprobability distribution, a quantum generalization of a probability distribution, which can behave nonclassically by having negative or nonreal elements. Negative KD elements signify quantum information scrambling and potential metrological quantum advantages. Nonreal elements encode measurement disturbance and thermodynamic nonclassicality. KD distributions' nonclassicality has been believed to follow necessarily from noncommutation of operators. We show that noncommutation does not suffice. We prove sufficient conditions for the KD distribution to be nonclassical (equivalently, necessary conditions for it to be classical). We also quantify the KD nonclassicality achievable under various conditions. This work resolves long-standing questions about nonclassicality and may be used to engineer quantum advantages.

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