Are number and phase complementary observables?

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/30/304MaRDI QIDQ2756921zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pellonpää, K. Ylinen, P. Busch, Pekka Lahti

Publication date 19 November 2001

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105036

zbMATH Keywords

phase-shift-covariant positive operator measuresshift generator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Quantum optics (81V80)

Abstract: We study various ways of characterising the quantum optical number and phase as complementary observables.

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