LOGICAL REVERSIBILITY IN QUANTUM-NONDEMOLITION MEASUREMENTS

被引:32
作者
IMAMOGLU, A
机构
[1] Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1993年 / 47卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.47.R4577
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We show that it is possible to make a logically reversible quantum-nondemolition measurement of an optical-field photon number, where the measurement preserves all the information contained in the premeasurement wave function. The nonunitary dynamics of the proposed scheme is analyzed using a Monte Carlo wave-function approach.
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页码:R4577 / R4580
页数:4
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