Consistency of the Shannon entropy in quantum experiments

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Mana, Piero G Luca ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; ENTROPY; EXPERIMENTS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CONDITIONAL ENTROPY; CUMMUTATIVE PROPERTY; DENSITY MATRIX; SHANNON ENTROPY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 4043141550     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.062108     Document Type: Article

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