Measurement of the Wigner Function
- 16 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 55 (25), 2745-2748
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.55.2745
Abstract
An operational procedure is given for determining experimentally, in principle at least, the Wigner function for an ensemble of particles. This manner of "measuring" a quantum state, whether pure or mixed, via its Wigner function, seems the simplest possible, and closely parallels the method one might use in classical mechanics to determine a (true) phase-space probability density.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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