Complete characterization of post-selected quantum statistics using weak measurement tomography

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Hofmann, Holger F ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INITIAL DENSITY; PURE STATE; QUANTUM STATE; QUANTUM STATE RECONSTRUCTION; QUANTUM STATISTICS; QUANTUM SYSTEM; STATISTICAL DECOMPOSITION; SUFFICIENT SET; TRANSIENT DENSITY; WEAK MEASUREMENTS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 73649106598     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.012103     Document Type: Article

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