Quantum measurements in continuous time, non-Markovian evolutions and feedback

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1979, 2012, Pages 5364-5385

  Barchielli, Alberto ^a,b   Gregoratti, Matteo ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Closed loop control; Non Markovian evolutions; Quantum trajectories; Squeezing

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; CONTINUOUS TIME; DINGER EQUATION; EMITTED LIGHT; FEED-BACK LOOP; MEASUREMENT-BASED; NON-MARKOVIAN; NON-MARKOVIAN THEORY; Q-PARAMETER; QUANTUM MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM PROPERTIES; QUANTUM SYSTEM; QUANTUM TRAJECTORIES; SQUEEZING; STOCHASTIC COEFFICIENTS; TARGET STATE; TWO-LEVEL ATOM;

LASER THEORY;

EID: 84868122900     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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