Spin nonclassicality via variance

Zhang Yue   ; Shunlong Luo

Teoretičeskaâ i matematičeskaâ fizika, Tome 208 (2021) no. 1, pp. 74-84

Résumé

Although variance, as one of the most fundamental and ubiquitous quantities in quantifying uncertainty, has been widely used in both classical and quantum physics, there are still new applications awaiting exploration. In this work, by interchanging the roles of the state variable and the observable variable, i.e., by formally regarding any state as an observable (which is rational because any state is a priori a Hermitian operator) and considering the average variance of this state (now in the position of an observable) in all spin coherent states, we introduce a quantifier of spin nonclassicality with respect to a resolution of identity induced by spin coherent states. This quantifier is easy to compute and it admits various operational interpretations, such as the purity deficit, the Tsallis 2-entropy deficit, and the squared norm deficit between the Wigner function and the Husimi function. We reveal several intuitive properties of this quantifier, connect it to the phase-space distribution uncertainty, and illustrate it with some prototypical examples. Various extensions are further indicated.

Détail

Keywords: spin nonclassicality, spin coherent states, variance, convexity, resolution of identity.

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