Can a Wigner Function be Reconstructed from Experimentally Determined Distributions?
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Modern Optics
- Vol. 41 (7) , 1427-1432
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09500349414551361
Abstract
Although the reconstruction of the Wigner function from generalized quasiprobability distributions that can be interpreted as smoothed Wigner functions poses no problem for theoretical calculations, there are, however, difficulties in the reconstruction when those distributions are gained from measurements.Keywords
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