Nonuniqueness of phase retrieval for three fractional Fourier transforms

DOI10.1016/J.ACHA.2014.11.001MaRDI QIDQ2517411zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Teiko Heinosaari, J. Schultz, Alessandro Toigo, Claudio Carmeli

Publication date 18 August 2015

Published in Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.6874

zbMATH Keywords

fractional Fourier transformsphase retrievalquantum tomography

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42B10) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50)

Abstract: We prove that, regardless of the choice of the angles $het{a}_1,het{a}_2,het{a}_3$, three fractional Fourier transforms $F_{het{a}_1}$, $F_{het{a}_2}$ and $F_{het{a}_3}$ do not solve the phase retrieval problem. That is, there do not exist three angles $het{a}_1$, $het{a}_2$, $het{a}_3$ such that any signal $psiin{L}^2(R)$ could be determined up to a constant phase by knowing only the three intensities $|F_{het{a}_1}psi{|}^2$, $|F_{het{a}_2}psi{|}^2$ and $|F_{het{a}_3}psi{|}^2$. This provides a negative argument against a recent speculation by P. Jaming, who stated that three suitably chosen fractional Fourier transforms are good candidates for phase retrieval in infinite dimension. We recast the question in the language of quantum mechanics, where our result shows that any fixed triple of rotated quadrature observables $Q_{het{a}_1}$, $Q_{het{a}_2}$ and $Q_{het{a}_3}$ is not enough to determine all unknown pure quantum states. The sufficiency of four rotated quadrature observables, or equivalently fractional Fourier transforms, remains an open question.

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