Scheme to measure the positivePdistribution
- 1 February 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 49 (2) , R665-R667
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.49.r665
Abstract
A four-port arrangement is shown to yield a direct measurement of the positive P distribution of Drummond and Gardiner [J. Phys. A 13, 2353 (1980)].Keywords
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