Phase-space-region operators and the Wigner function: Geometric constructions and tomography

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Ellinas, Demosthenes ^a   Bracken, Anthony J ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MAPS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; RADON; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

CONSTRUCTION METHODS; DENSITY OPERATORS; DO-MAINS; GEOMETRIC CONSTRUCTIONS; OPERATIONAL METHODS; PHASE SPACES; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATIONS; QUANTUM SYSTEMS; QUASIPROBABILITY; RADON TRANSFORMS; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; TOMOGRAPHIC METHODS; UNITARY OPERATIONS; WIGNER FUNCTIONS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 56249134525     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.052106     Document Type: Article

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