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View SchemaGeneralized Husimi Functions: Analyticity and Information Content
| Authors | D. M. Appleby |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9805054 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9805054 |
| DOI | 10.1080/09500349908231307 |
| Journal | J.Mod.Opt. 46 (1999) 825-841 |
Abstract
The analytic properties of a class of generalized Husimi functions are discussed, with particular reference to the problem of state reconstruction. The class consists of the subset of Wodkiewicz's operational probability distributions for which the filter reference state is a squeezed vacuum state. The fact that the function is analytic means that perfectly precise knowledge of its values over any small region of phase space provides enough information to reconstruct the density matrix. If, however, one only has imprecise knowledge of its values, then the amplification of statistical errors which occurs when one attempts to carry out the continuation seriously limits the amount of information which can be extracted. To take account of this fact a distinction is made between explicate, or experimentally accessible information, and information which is only present in implicate, experimentally inaccessible form. It is shown that an explicate description of various aspects of the system can be found localised on various 2 real dimensional surfaces in complexified phase space. In particular, the continuation of the function to the purely imaginary part of complexified phase space provides an explicate description of the Wigner function.
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