Entropy change and information gain in photon counting measurement

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 209-216

  Ban, Masashi ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Entropy change; Mutual information; Photon counting measurement

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; MARKOV PROCESSES;

CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; ENTROPY CHANGES; INFORMATION GAIN; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; PHOTON COUNTING MEASUREMENTS; PHOTON STATISTICS; QUANTUM MARKOV PROCESS; SHANNON MUTUAL INFORMATION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 4243455087     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(97)00554-9     Document Type: Article

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