An invitation to quantum tomography

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 109-134

  Artiles, L M ^a   Gill, R D ^b,c   Guta M I ^b  

^a EURANDOM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Density matrix; EM algorithm; Pattern functions estimation; Quantum tomography; Sieve maximum likelihood estimation; Wigner function

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844278070     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2005.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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