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[Kok Chuan Tan, Seongjeon Choi, and Hyunseok Jeong] Negativity of Quasiprobability Distributions as a Measure of Nonclassicality

March 26, 2020l Hit 1206

We demonstrate that the negative volume of any s-parametrized quasiprobability, including the Glauber-Sudashan P-function, can be consistently defined and forms a continuous hierarchy of nonclassicality measures that are linear optical monotones. These measures belong to an operational resource theory of nonclassicality based on linear optical operations. The negativity of the Glauber-Sudashan P-function, in particular, can be shown to have an operational interpretation as the robustness of nonclassicality. We then introduce an approximate linear optical monotone, and show that this nonclassicality quantifier is computable and is able to identify the nonclassicality of nearly all nonclassical states.