The Interplay between Quantum Contextuality and Wigner Negativity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08782v1
• Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 10:05:09 GMT
• Title: The Interplay between Quantum Contextuality and Wigner Negativity
• Authors: Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau
• Abstract summary: This thesis focuses on two nonclassical behaviours: quantum contextuality and Wigner negativity. quantum contextuality is a notion superseding nonlocality that can be exhibited by quantum systems. Wigner negativity is an unsettling non-classical feature of quantum states that originates from phase-space formulation in continuous-variable quantum optics.
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• Abstract: The use of quantum information in technology promises to supersede the so-called classical devices used nowadays. Understanding what features are inherently non-classical is crucial for reaching better-than-classical performance. This thesis focuses on two nonclassical behaviours: quantum contextuality and Wigner negativity. The former is a notion superseding nonlocality that can be exhibited by quantum systems. To date, it has mostly been studied in discrete-variable scenarios. In those scenarios, contextuality has been shown to be necessary and sufficient for advantages in some cases. On the other hand, negativity of the Wigner function is another unsettling non-classical feature of quantum states that originates from phase-space formulation in continuous-variable quantum optics. Continuous-variable scenarios offer promising candidates for implementing quantum computations. Wigner negativity is known to be a necessary resource for quantum speedup with continuous variables. However contextuality has been little understood and studied in continuous-variable scenarios. We first set out a robust framework for properly treating contextuality in continuous variables. We also quantify contextuality in such scenarios by using tools from infinite-dimensional optimisation theory. Building upon this, we show that Wigner negativity is equivalent to contextuality in continuous variables with respect to Pauli measurements thus establishing a continuous-variable analogue of a celebrated result by Howard et al. We then introduce experimentally-friendly witnesses for Wigner negativity of single mode and multimode quantum states, based on fidelities with Fock states, using again tools from infinite-dimensional optimisation theory. We further extend the range of previously known discrete-variable results linking contextuality and advantage into a new territory of information retrieval.

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