Logical reversibility in quantum measurement: General theory and specific examples

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3808-3817

  Ueda, Masahito ^a   Imoto, Nobuyuki ^b   Nagaoka, Hiroshi ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

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EID: 0041067957     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.3808     Document Type: Article

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