Test of the State Reduction Rule
- 27 September 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 83 (13) , 2490-2493
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.2490
Abstract
We present an experiment for testing quantum state reduction. The state reduction rule is tested using optical homodyne tomography by directly measuring the fidelity between the theoretically expected reduced state and the experimental state.Keywords
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