Quantum state reconstruction and detection of quantum coherences on different observation levels

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 804-820

  Buzek V ^a   Adam, G ^a   Drobny G ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

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EID: 0001467433     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.804     Document Type: Article

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