Collective versus local measurements in a qubit mixed-state estimation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 103041-103044

  Bagan, E ^a   Baig, M ^a   Munoz Tapia R ^a   Rodriguez, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCIES; INVARIANCE; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM OPTICS; ROTATION; STATE ESTIMATION; TOMOGRAPHY; VECTORS;

BLOCH VECTORS; QUANTUM INFORMATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 13744265691     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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