Testing quantum mechanics: a statistical approach
Quantum Physics
2014-01-28 v4
Abstract
As experiments continue to push the quantum-classical boundary using increasingly complex dynamical systems, the interpretation of experimental data becomes more and more challenging: when the observations are noisy, indirect, and limited, how can we be sure that we are observing quantum behavior? This tutorial highlights some of the difficulties in such experimental tests of quantum mechanics, using optomechanics as the central example, and discusses how the issues can be resolved using techniques from statistics and insights from quantum information theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1306.2699,
title = {Testing quantum mechanics: a statistical approach},
author = {Mankei Tsang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2699},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
v1: 2 pages; v2: invited tutorial for Quantum Measurements and Quantum Metrology, substantial expansion of v1, 19 pages; v3: accepted; v4: corrected some errors, published