1210.1783 (Victor Veitch et al.)

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

Victor Veitch, Nathan Wiebe, Christopher Ferrie, Joseph Emerson

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 identifying 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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