Comment on ‘‘Operational approach to the phase of a quantum field’’
- 1 May 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 47 (5) , 4532-4534
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.47.4532
Abstract
Interpretational difficulties of a quantum measurement [J. W. Noh, A. Fougères, and L. Mandel, Phys. Rev. A 45, 424 (1992)] are pointed out. The nonunitarity of the respective exponential phase operator reflects an enhanced noise, which can be reduced by discarding ambiguous output data. Consequently, dispersion of such measurements does not represent a meaningful performance measure relevant to the input state. Moreover, the proposed model of quantum phase measurements provides a discrete spectrum of the quantum phase operator, whereas the phase-shift parameter is continuous.Keywords
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