Generalized husimi functions: Analyticity and information content

DOI10.1080/09500349908231307MaRDI QIDQ4490411zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. M. Appleby

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Journal of Modern Optics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9805054

zbMATH Keywords

generalized Husimi functionsphase spacestate reconstructionWigner functionWodkiewicz's operational probability distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Information theory (general) (94A15)

Abstract: The analytic properties of a class of generalized Husimi functions are discussed, with particular reference to the problem of state reconstruction. The class consists of the subset of Wodkiewicz's operational probability distributions for which the filter reference state is a squeezed vacuum state. The fact that the function is analytic means that perfectly precise knowledge of its values over any small region of phase space provides enough information to reconstruct the density matrix. If, however, one only has imprecise knowledge of its values, then the amplification of statistical errors which occurs when one attempts to carry out the continuation seriously limits the amount of information which can be extracted. To take account of this fact a distinction is made between explicate, or experimentally accessible information, and information which is only present in implicate, experimentally inaccessible form. It is shown that an explicate description of various aspects of the system can be found localised on various 2 real dimensional surfaces in complexified phase space. In particular, the continuation of the function to the purely imaginary part of complexified phase space provides an explicate description of the Wigner function.

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