Framed Hilbert space: Hanging the quasi-probability pictures of quantum theory

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ferrie, Christopher ^a   Emerson, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL REPRESENTATION; CONTEXTUALITY; FINITE-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL THEORY; NATURAL GENERALIZATION; NO-GO THEOREM; NONCLASSICALITY; PHASE SPACES; QUASIPROBABILITY;

PROBABILITY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

SET THEORY;

EID: 67650478663     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/6/063040     Document Type: Article

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