RECONSTRUCTION OF QUANTUM STATES FROM PROPENSITIES

Authors
Citation
A. Wunsche et V. Buzek, RECONSTRUCTION OF QUANTUM STATES FROM PROPENSITIES, Quantum and semiclassical optics, 9(4), 1997, pp. 631-653
Citations number
87
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
ISSN journal
13555111
Volume
9
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
631 - 653
Database
ISI
SICI code
1355-5111(1997)9:4<631:ROQSFP>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
We focus our attention on the problem of reconstruction of density ope rators of quantum states from propensities, i.e. generalized quasiprob ability density distributions obtained by quantum filtering. We consid er propensities obtained by filtering with pure Gaussian as well as no n-Gaussian states and we present two examples: when the filter is in a squeezed coherent state and in a Fock state, respectively. We also sh ow that even in the case of filtering with statistical mixtures a comp lete reconstruction of a density operator of the measured quantum stat e can be performed.