Interference in complex canonical variables is not quantum

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01920v1
• Date: Sat, 03 May 2025 20:55:20 GMT
• Title: Interference in complex canonical variables is not quantum
• Authors: Chiara Marletto, Vlatko Vedral,
• Abstract summary: We represent the quantum interference of a single qubit embodied by a photon in the Mach-Zehnder interferometer.<n>Although all operations on a single qubit can be formally expressed, we show that the resulting system is still not a proper qubit.
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• Abstract: We formally represent the quantum interference of a single qubit embodied by a photon in the Mach-Zehnder interferometer using the classical Hamiltonian framework but with complex canonical variables. Although all operations on a single qubit can be formally expressed using the complex classical Hamiltonian dynamics, we show that the resulting system is still not a proper qubit. The reason is that it is not capable of getting entangled to another bona fide qubit and hence it does not have the information-processing capacity of a fully-fledged quantum system. This simple example powerfully illustrates the failure of all hybrid quantum-classical models in accounting for the full range of behaviour of even a single quantum bit.

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