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Physical properties of gaussian operations over entangled gaussian states

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Author(s):
Luís Fernando Haruna
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin
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Examining board members:
Marcos César de Oliveira; Antonio Vidiella Barranco; Viktor Dodonov
Advisor: Marcos César de Oliveira
Abstract

We study quantum Gaussian states and the physical properties associated to operations over such class of states, which preserve the respective Gaussian nature. General properties of global covariance matrices representing two-mode bipartite Gaussian states can be decomposed into properties of local covariance matrices and their Schur complements. We demonstrate that given a two-mode Gaussian state r12 described by a 4 × 4 covariance matrix V, the Schur complement of a 2 × 2 local covariance sub-matrix V2 of it can be interpreted as a new covariance matrix representing a Gaussian operator of party 1 conditioned to local parity measurements on party 2. As the parity mean value is related to the determination of the Wigner function of a state at the origin of the phase-space, which can be achieved straightforwardly by photocounting experiments, this result allow us to study properties of this function in terms of the odd and even measurements probabilities of the local mode. We also generalize this procedure to a n partite Gaussian state and we demonstrate that a n - 1 system operator conditioned to a partial projection is given by a covariance matrix such as its 2 × 2 block elements are Schur complements of special local matrices. The determination of the relation between a mathematical structure (the Schur complement) with a physical process allowed us to construct a protocol to identify the two-mode Gaussian state entanglement properties via only local measure-ments/ operations and a classical communication channel between the two parties. This protocol is established from the achievement of the four local sympletic invariants of the Sp(2, R) group, which determines the entanglement and purity properties of a two-mode Gaussian state. Moreover, for the symmetric Gaussian states class, which include for example the squeezed thermal state and the EPR state, this protocol is also uselfull for the covariance matrix reconstruction (AU)