Continuous majorization in quantum phase space

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09167v2
• Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 17:09:23 GMT
• Title: Continuous majorization in quantum phase space
• Authors: Zacharie Van Herstraeten, Michael G. Jabbour and Nicolas J. Cerf
• Abstract summary: We show that majorization theory provides an elegant and very natural approach to exploring the information-theoretic properties of Wigner functions in phase space. We conjecture a fundamental majorization relation: any positive Wigner function is majorized by the Wigner function of a Gaussian pure state. Our main result is then to prove this fundamental majorization relation for a relevant subset of Wigner-positive quantum states.
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• Abstract: We explore the role of majorization theory in quantum phase space. To this purpose, we restrict ourselves to quantum states with positive Wigner functions and show that the continuous version of majorization theory provides an elegant and very natural approach to exploring the information-theoretic properties of Wigner functions in phase space. After identifying all Gaussian pure states as equivalent in the precise sense of continuous majorization, which can be understood in light of Hudson's theorem, we conjecture a fundamental majorization relation: any positive Wigner function is majorized by the Wigner function of a Gaussian pure state (especially, the bosonic vacuum state or ground state of the harmonic oscillator). As a consequence, any Schur-concave function of the Wigner function is lower bounded by the value it takes for the vacuum state. This implies in turn that the Wigner entropy is lower bounded by its value for the vacuum state, while the converse is notably not true. Our main result is then to prove this fundamental majorization relation for a relevant subset of Wigner-positive quantum states which are mixtures of the three lowest eigenstates of the harmonic oscillator. Beyond that, the conjecture is also supported by numerical evidence. We conclude by discussing some implications of this conjecture in the context of entropic uncertainty relations in phase space.

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