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Measurement-induced remote activation of nonclassicality

Sep 2026 · 2 citations · 62 references
Physics

Abstract

Nonclassicality, defined through nonpositivity of quasiprobability distributions such as the Wigner and Kirkwood-Dirac distributions, underlies key quantum advantages. We show that it can be remotely activated: local measurements by a correlated partner alone can drive a party whose reduced state is classical into a genuinely nonclassical conditional state. For two-qubit systems we obtain closed forms for the maximal single-branch effect and for its probability-weighted average under the best two-outcome projective measurement, the latter proven optimal over all measurements when the shared state carries no local bias. Local noise on the steered party, evaluated relative to its own noise-updated reference basis, can enhance the effect when non-unital and misaligned with that party's axis, whereas no unital channel ever helps. This nonclassicality is shown to unlock, for the same reference observable, anomalous weak values unavailable to the unsteered state under arbitrary postselection. An exactly solvable hybrid qubit-oscillator model shows the same mechanism generates Wigner negativity. These results identify measurement-induced steering as an operational resource for remotely activating nonclassicality.

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