Efficient simulation scheme for a class of quantum optics experiments with non-negative Wigner representation

Autor: Victor Veitch, Nathan Wiebe, Christopher Ferrie, Joseph Emerson
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: New Journal of Physics, Vol 15, Iss 1, p 013037 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/1/013037
Popis: We provide a scheme for efficient simulation of a broad class of quantum optics experiments. Our efficient simulation extends the continuous variable Gottesman–Knill theorem to a large class of non-Gaussian mixed states, thereby demonstrating that these non-Gaussian states are not an enabling resource for exponential quantum speed-up. Our results also provide an operationally motivated interpretation of negativity as non-classicality. We apply our scheme to the case of noisy single-photon-added-thermal-states to show that this class admits states with positive Wigner function but negative P -function that are not useful resource states for quantum computation.
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