Quantum State Estimation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Paris, Matteo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rehacek, Jaroslav (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 649
• Subjects: Quantum physics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum optics.; Physical measurements.; Measurement .; Data structures (Computer science).; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Quantum Optics.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Data Structures and Information Theory.

This book is a comprehensive survey of most of the theoretical and experimental achievements in the field of quantum estimation of states and operations. Albeit still quite young, this field has already been recognized as a necessary tool for research in quantum optics and quantum information, beyon...

Table of Contents:

• Quantum Tomographic Methods
• Maximum-Likelihood Methods in Quantum Mechanics
• Qubit Quantum State Tomography
• Unknown Quantum States and Operations, a Bayesian View
• Quantum Tomography from Incomplete Data Via MaxEnt Principle
• Experimental Quantum State Tomography of Optical Fields and Ultrafast Statistical Sampling
• Characterization of Quantum Devices
• Quantum Operations on Qubits and Their Characterization
• Maximum-Likelihood Estimation in Experimental Quantum Physics
• Discrimination of Quantum States
• Quantum States: Discrimination and Classical Information Transmission. A Review of Experimental Progress.