Quantum theory from five reasonable axioms

L Hardy - arXiv preprint quant-ph/0101012, 2001 - arxiv.org
The usual formulation of quantum theory is based on rather obscure axioms (employing
complex Hilbert spaces, Hermitean operators, and the trace rule for calculating …

Quantum tomography

GM D'Ariano, MGA Paris… - Advances in imaging and …, 2003 - books.google.com
The state of a physical system is the mathematical description that provides complete
information on the system. Its knowledge is equivalent to knowing the result of any possible …

Unknown quantum states: the quantum de Finetti representation

CM Caves, CA Fuchs, R Schack - Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
We present an elementary proof of the quantum de Finetti representation theorem, a
quantum analog of de Finetti's classical theorem on exchangeable probability assignments …

An introduction to the tomographic picture of quantum mechanics

A Ibort, VI Man'Ko, G Marmo, A Simoni… - Physica Scripta, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Starting from the famous Pauli problem on the possibility of associating quantum states with
probabilities, the formulation of quantum mechanics in which quantum states are described …

Alternative commutation relations, star products and tomography

OV Man'ko, VI Man'Ko, G Marmo - Journal of Physics A …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
Invertible maps from operators of quantum observables onto functions of c-number
arguments and their associative products are first assessed. Different types of maps such as …

Metric on the space of quantum states from relative entropy. Tomographic reconstruction

VI Man'ko, G Marmo, F Ventriglia… - Journal of Physics A …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In the framework of quantum information geometry, we derive, from quantum relative Tsallis
entropy, a family of quantum metrics on the space of full rank, N level quantum states, by …

2 Quantum Tomographic Methods

GM D'Ariano, MGA Paris, MF Sacchi - Quantum State Estimation, 2004 - Springer
The state of a physical system is the mathematical object that provides a complete
information on the system. The knowledge of the state is equivalent to know the result of any …

Triangle geometry of the qubit state in the probability representation expressed in terms of the Triada of Malevich's Squares

VN Chernega, OV Man'ko, VI Man'ko - Journal of Russian Laser Research, 2017 - Springer
We map the density matrix of the qubit (spin-1/2) state associated with the Bloch sphere and
given in the tomographic probability representation onto vertices of a triangle determining …

Probability representation of quantum observables and quantum states

VN Chernega, OV Man'ko, VI Man'ko - Journal of Russian Laser Research, 2017 - Springer
We introduce the probability distributions describing quantum observables in conventional
quantum mechanics and clarify their relations to the tomographic probability distributions …

Tomographic measurements on superconducting qubit states

Y Liu, LF Wei, F Nori - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2005 - APS
We propose an approach to reconstruct any superconducting charge qubit state by using
quantum state tomography. This procedure requires a series of measurements on a large …