Phase estimation with nonunitary interferometers: Information as a metric

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Bahder, Thomas B ^a  

^a US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHER INFORMATION; GENERAL EXPRESSION; IN-PHASE; NONDETERMINISTIC STATE; NONIDEAL; PHASE ESTIMATION; QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES; QUANTUM INTERFEROMETER; SHANNON MUTUAL INFORMATION; STATE DETECTION; STATE EVOLUTIONS;

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; INTERFEROMETERS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 79961075061     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.053601     Document Type: Article

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