The reconstruction problem and weak quantum values

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/45/11/115305MaRDI QIDQ5388929zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maurice de Gosson, Serge M. De Gosson

Publication date 24 April 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5773

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: Quantum Mechanical weak values are an interference effect measured by the cross-Wigner transform W({phi},{psi}) of the post-and preselected states, leading to a complex quasi-distribution { ho}_{{phi},{psi}}(x,p) on phase space. We show that the knowledge of { ho}_{{phi},{psi}}(z) and of one of the two functions {phi},{psi} unambiguously determines the other, thus generalizing a recent reconstruction result of Lundeen and his collaborators.

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