Hilbert's 17th problem and the quantumness of states

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Korbicz, J K ^a   Cirac, J I ^b   Wehr, Jan ^c   Lewenstein, M ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNIHILATION OPERATORS; NONCLASSICAL STATES; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM SYSTEMS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 18144365184     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.153601     Document Type: Article

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