Tomography for quantum diagnostics

作者:Rehacek J*; Mogilevtsev D; Hradil Z
来源:New Journal of Physics, 2008, 10: 043022.
DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/10/4/043022

摘要

The quantification of relevant statistical errors is an indispensable but often neglected part of any tomographic scheme used for quantum diagnostic purposes. We introduce a novel resolution measure, which provides 'error bars' for any inferred quantity of interest. This is illustrated with an example of the diagnostics of non-classical states based on the value of the reconstructed Wigner function at the origin of the phase space. We show that such diagnostics is meaningful only when a lot of prior information on the measured quantum state is available. Our resolution measure also provides an effective tool for optimization and resolution tuning of tomography schemes.

  • 出版日期2008-4-14