Quantum-state tomography using a single apparatus

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Mehmani, B ^a   Allahverdyan, A E ^b   Nieuwenhuizen, Th M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Armenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; PHOTONS; RADIATION; SPIN DYNAMICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

DENSITY MATRIX; JAYNES-CUMMINGS MODEL; PAULI VECTOR;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 41549085134     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.032122     Document Type: Article

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