Probing light polarization with the quantum Chernoff bound

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Ghiu, Iulia ^a   Björk, Gunnar ^b   Marian, Paulina ^a   Marian, Tudor A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHERNOFF BOUNDS; CONVEX SET; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; DEGREES OF POLARIZATION; EXPLICIT EXPRESSIONS; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; QUANTUM DESCRIPTION; QUANTUM RADIATION; TWO-MODE STATE;

POLARIZATION; SET THEORY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 77955778921     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.023803     Document Type: Article

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