Maximum-likelihood estimation of the density matrix

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 103041-103044

  Banaszek, K ^a,b   D'Ariano, G M ^a   Paris, M G A ^a   Sacchi, M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

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