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Phys. Rev. A 55, R1561–R1564 (1997)

Quantum-state estimation

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Z. Hradil
Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Schüttelstrasse 115, A-1020 Wien, Austria

Received 11 September 1996; published in the issue dated March 1997

An algorithm for quantum-state estimation based on the maximum-likelihood estimation is proposed. Existing techniques for state reconstruction based on the inversion of measured data are shown to be overestimated since they do not guarantee the positive definiteness of the reconstructed density matrix.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.55.R1561
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.55.R1561
PACS:
03.65.Bz, 02.50.Wp, 42.50.Dv