Sub-Planck structures: Analogies between the Heisenberg-Weyl and SU(2) groups

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10791v2
• Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:49:06 GMT
• Title: Sub-Planck structures: Analogies between the Heisenberg-Weyl and SU(2) groups
• Authors: Naeem Akhtar, Barry C. Sanders, and Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch
• Abstract summary: Coherent-state superpositions are of great importance for many quantum subjects. Here we explore various aspects of these states, related to the connection between sub-Planck structures present in their Wigner function and their sensitivity to displacements.
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• Abstract: Coherent-state superpositions are of great importance for many quantum subjects, ranging from foundational to technological, e.g., from tests of collapse models to quantum metrology. Here we explore various aspects of these states, related to the connection between sub-Planck structures present in their Wigner function and their sensitivity to displacements (ultimately determining their metrological potential). We review this for the usual Heisenberg-Weyl algebra associated to a harmonic oscillator, and extend it to find analogous results for the $\mathfrak{su}(2)$ algebra, typically associated with angular momentum. In particular, in the Heisenberg-Weyl case, we identify phase-space structures with support smaller than the Planck action in both Schr\"{o}dinger-cat-state mixtures and superpositions, the latter known as compass states. However, as compared to coherent states, compass states are shown to have $\sqrt{N}$-enhanced sensitivity against displacements in all phase-space directions ($N$ is the average number of quanta), whereas cat states and cat mixtures show such enhanced sensitivity only for displacements in specific directions. We then show that these same properties apply for analogous SU(2) states provided (i) coherent states are restricted to the equator of the sphere that plays the role of phase space for this group, (ii) we associate the role of the Planck action to the size of SU(2) coherent states in such a sphere, and (iii) we associate the role of $N$ with the total angular momentum.

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