The classicality and quantumness of a quantum ensemble

Details The classicality and quantumness of a quantum ensemble The classicality and quantumness of a quantum ensemble

2010-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/1010.5065v2

Physics Letters A 375 (2011) 1855-1859

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, 1 figure

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In this paper, we investigate the classicality and quantumness of a quantum ensemble. We define a quantity called classicality to characterize how classical a quantum ensemble is. An ensemble of commuting states that can be manipulated classically has a unit classicality, while a general ensemble has a classicality less than 1. We also study how quantum an ensemble is by defining a related quantity called quantumness. We find that the classicality of an ensemble is closely related to how perfectly the ensemble can be cloned, and that the quantumness of an ensemble is essentially responsible for the security of quantum key distribution(QKD) protocols using that ensemble. Furthermore, we show that the quantumness of an ensemble used in a QKD protocol is exactly the attainable lower bound of the error rate in the sifted key.

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