A Phase-space Formulation of the Belavkin-Kushner-Stratonovich Filtering Equation for Nonlinear Quantum Stochastic Systems
Abstract
This paper is concerned with a filtering problem for a class of nonlinear quantum stochastic systems with multichannel nondemolition measurements. The system-observation dynamics are governed by a Markovian Hudson-Parthasarathy quantum stochastic differential equation driven by quantum Wiener processes of bosonic fields in vacuum state. The Hamiltonian and system-field coupling operators, as functions of the system variables, are represented in a Weyl quantization form. Using the Wigner-Moyal phase-space framework, we obtain a stochastic integro-differential equation for the posterior quasi-characteristic function (QCF) of the system conditioned on the measurements. This equation is a spatial Fourier domain representation of the Belavkin-Kushner-Stratonovich stochastic master equation driven by the innovation process associated with the measurements. We also discuss a more specific form of the posterior QCF dynamics in the case of linear system-field coupling and outline a Gaussian approximation of the posterior quantum state.
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@article{arxiv.1602.07911,
title = {A Phase-space Formulation of the Belavkin-Kushner-Stratonovich Filtering Equation for Nonlinear Quantum Stochastic Systems},
author = {Igor G. Vladimirov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.07911},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
12 pages, a brief version of this paper to be submitted to the IEEE 2016 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, 13-15 July, Melbourne, Australia