Is the Wigner function directly measurable in quantum optics?

DOI10.1016/0375-9601(94)90945-8MaRDI QIDQ1965021zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li, Ulf Leonhardt, Harry Paul

Publication date 6 February 2000

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(94)90945-8

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Quantum optics (81V80)

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