3 papers
quant-ph2025
What is special about the Kirkwood-Dirac distributions? Only they produce natural conditional expectations
Matéo Spriet, Christopher Langrenez, Raymond Brummelhuis +1
Among the many quasiprobability representations of quantum mechanics, the family of Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) representations has come to the foreground in recent years. Each such KD rep…
quant-ph2024
Contextuality Can be Verified with Noncontextual Experiments
Jonathan J. Thio, Wilfred Salmon, Crispin H. W. Barnes +2
We uncover new features of generalized contextuality by connecting it to the Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability distribution. Quantum states can be represented by KD distribution…
quant-ph2024
Convex roofs witnessing Kirkwood-Dirac nonpositivity
Christopher Langrenez, Stephan De Bièvre, David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur
Given two observables and , one can associate to every quantum state a Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability distribution. KD distributions are like joint classical probabili…