Optical realization of optimal unambiguous discrimination for pure and mixed quantum states

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Mohseni, Masoud ^a   Steinberg, Aephraim M ^a   Bergou, János A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY;

POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS (PBSS); POSITIVE-OPERATOR VALUED MEASURES (POVM); PROJECTION VALUED MEASUREMENT (PVM); QUANTUM STATE FILTERING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 19744362329     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.200403     Document Type: Article

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