Quantum calibration of measurement instrumentation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 25, 2004, Pages

  D'Ariano, Giacomo Mauro ^a,b   Maccone, Lorenzo ^a   Presti, Paoloplacido Lo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPARTITE SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTATION; QUANTUM CALIBRATION; QUANTUM SYSTEMS;

DATA REDUCTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; TOMOGRAPHY;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 42749105926     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.250407     Document Type: Article

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