Reconstruction of superoperators from incomplete measurements

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 127-156

  Ziman, Mário ^a,b   Plesch, Martin ^a,c   Bužek, Vladimír ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Quniverse   (Slovakia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Quantum dynamics; Quantum process reconstruction; Quantum state estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745198455     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10701-005-9009-9     Document Type: Article

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