Optimal detection of losses by thermal probes

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Invernizzi, Carmen ^a   Paris, Matteo G A ^a,b   Pirandola, Stefano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNISM   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-MONOTONE; BOSONIC CHANNELS; CHERNOFF BOUNDS; CRITICAL VALUE; DAMPING RATE; INPUT ENERGY; LOSS DETECTION; LOSSLESS CHANNEL; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; OPTIMAL DETECTION; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; SINGLE MODE; SQUEEZED THERMAL STATE; THERMAL PHOTONS; THERMAL PROBE; TOTAL ENERGY; TWO-MODE ENTANGLEMENT; TWO-MODE SQUEEZED VACUUM STATE; UNBALANCED DISTRIBUTION;

DAMPING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; VACUUM;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 80052280505     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.84.022334     Document Type: Article

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