Determination of the Wigner function from photon statistics
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We present an experimental realisation of the direct scheme for measuring the Wigner function of a single quantized light mode. In this method, the Wigner function is determined as the expectation value of the photon number parity operator for the phase space displaced quantum state.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9904089,
title = {Determination of the Wigner function from photon statistics},
author = {K. Banaszek and C. Radzewicz and K. Wodkiewicz and J. S. Krasinski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9904089},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages LaTeX, contribution to proceedings of 6th central-european workshop on quantum optics; see also http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~kbanasz/QOLab/ExpWigner/