Inadequacy of a classical interpretation of quantum projective measurements via Wigner functions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Kalev, Amir ^a,c   Mann, Ady ^a   Mello, Pier A ^b   Revzen, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

CLASSICAL PROBABILITIES; EIGEN VALUES; GAUSSIAN STATE; PROJECTIVE MEASUREMENTS; QUANTUM PROCESS; VARIABLE MODELS; WIGNER FUNCTIONS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 60149087273     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.014104     Document Type: Article

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