State reconstruction for a collection of two-level systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 671-673

  Agarwal, G S ^a,b  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM OPTICS;

QUANTUM STATE RECONSTRUCTION; TWO LEVEL SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0031648108     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.57.671     Document Type: Article

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