A quasiprobability distribution function proposed to account for quantum corrections to classical statistical mechanics with a goal to link the wavefunction that appears in Schrödinger's equation to a probability distribution in phase space.
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Does a Wigner function uniquely determine a quantum state?
We know that the Wigner function of a Gaussian quantum state is (up to a constant) a Gaussian distribution. The first moment and the covariance of this distribution uniquely specify a quantum state. Therefore a Wigner function uniquely determines a…
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What does negative probability represent?
"Negative energies and probabilities should not be considered as nonsense. They are well-defined concepts mathematically, like a negative of money." -Paul Dirac
The abstract from Photon-phonon-photon transfer in optomechanics states:
the Wigner…
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Properties of frames in quasiprobability representation
Let $\mathbb{C}^{d}$ be a complex Euclidean space.
Let $\mathsf{H}(\mathbb{C}^{d})$ be the set of all Hermitian operators, mapping vectors from $\mathbb{C}^{d}$ to $\mathbb{C}^{d}$. I had some questions about the notation introduced in this paper…
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Relation between Wigner quasi-probability distribution and statistical second-moment
Is there any relation between the Wigner quasi-probability distribution function $W$ and the statistical second-moment (also known as covariance matrix) of a density matrix of a continuous variable state, such as Gaussian state?
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Are there non-stabilizer multi-qubit states that are easy to simulate?
The Gottesman-Knill theorem states that the following process is efficiently simulatable on a classical computer:
start of with a set of qubits in a computational basis
apply any amount of $H, S$ and $CNOT$ gates in any order
measure all the qubits…
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Finding Wigner function of four maximal entangled Bell state
How can we find a Wigner function for the four maximally entangled Bell states $(|00\rangle \pm |11\rangle)/\sqrt{2}$, $(|01\rangle \pm |10\rangle)/\sqrt{2}$?
I have used the basis where labels for each qubit are $\sigma_x$ and $\sigma_z$…
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Non-magic non-stabilizer multi-qubit states
Does anyone know of any resources that show examples of simple multi-qubit states which are non-stabilizer states but that are still classically efficiently stimulable? Another way to phrase it is that I am looking for examples of multi-qubit states…
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What is the relation between density matrices and phase-space probability distributions?
According to its tag description, a density matrix is the quantum-mechanical analogue to a phase-space probability measure (probability distribution of position and momentum) in classical statistical mechanics.
How can I reconcile the concept and…
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Invert colors in qutip plot_wigner function
In QuTiP, it is possible to plot Wigner functions with positive (shown in blue) and negative (shown in red) values.
For example, the following code displays the Wigner function of a Schrodinger cat state :
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from qutip…
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Evaluation of Wigner function representation of a Bloch Sphere
Consider Wigner function representation of a qubit in the basis labeled by $\sigma_z$ and $\sigma_x$ eigenvalues. A general single qubit mixed state has the Bloch representation,$\rho = 1/2 (I + r.\sigma)$with $|r| ≤ 1$. Find the region of the Bloch…
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