QUANTUM DIAGNOSIS OF MOLECULES - A METHOD FOR MEASURING DIRECTLY THE WIGNER FUNCTION OF A MOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL-STATE

Authors
DAVIDOVICH L ORSZAG M ZAGURY N
Citation
L. Davidovich et al., QUANTUM DIAGNOSIS OF MOLECULES - A METHOD FOR MEASURING DIRECTLY THE WIGNER FUNCTION OF A MOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL-STATE, Physical review. A, 57(4), 1998, pp. 2544-2549
Citations number
47
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
10502947
Volume
57
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
2544 - 2549
Database
ISI
SICI code
1050-2947(1998)57:4<2544:QDOM-A>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
We propose a method for measuring directly the Wigner function of a mo lecular vibrational state. Our method does not involve the calculation of integral transforms, as in tomographic proposals, and is applicabl e to a large class of molecular states.