Phase properties of operator valued measures in phase space

DOI10.1080/09500340.2013.793418zbMATH Open1356.81133arXiv1205.3294OpenAlexW1970098965MaRDI QIDQ2962652FDOQ2962652

Authors: T. Subeesh, Vivishek Sudhir 

Publication date: 17 February 2017

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

Abstract: The Wigner Phase Operator (WPO) is identified as an operator valued measure (OVM) and its eigen states are obtained. An operator satisfying the canonical commutation relation with the Wigner phase operator is also constructed and this establishes a Wigner distribution based operator formalism for the Wigner Phase Distribution. The operator satisfying the canonical commutation relation with the Wigner Phase Operator valued measure (WP-OVM) is found to be not the usual number operator. We show a way to overcome the non-positivity problem of the WP-OVM by defining a positive OVM by means of a proper filter function, based on the view that phase measurements are coarse-grained in phase space, leading to the well known Q-distribution. The identification of Q phase operator as a POVM is in good agreement with the earlier observation regarding the relation between operational phase measurement schemes and the Q-distribution. The Q phase POVM can be dilated in the sense of Gelfand-Naimark, to an operational setting of interference at a beam-splitter with another coherent state - this results in a von Neumann projector with well-defined phase.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3294

Recommendations

• Constructing operator valued probability measures in phase space
• Operator formalism for the Wigner phase distribution
• Phase observables, phase operators and operator orderings
• Operational Quantum Physics
• Operational Phase Operators and Hermitian Phase Operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cites Work

• Operator formalism for the Wigner phase distribution

Cited In (6)

• Quantum phase distribution by operator synthesis
• Constructing operator valued probability measures in phase space
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Generalized Photon Added and Subtracted f‐Deformed Displaced Fock States
• Operator formalism for the Wigner phase distribution
• Moment operators of the Cartesian margins of the phase space observables

This page was built for publication: Phase properties of operator valued measures in phase space

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2962652)