Prior information: How to circumvent the standard joint-measurement uncertainty relation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 5 A, 2004, Pages

  Hall, Michael J W ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DETECTORS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICS;

PHYSICAL STATES; QUANTUM STATES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE (RMS); SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIELDS; UNCERTAINTY RELATIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 3042736708     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.052113     Document Type: Article

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