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Physical Review A

SU(1,1) tomography

Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano, Ernesto De Vito, Lorenzo Maccone

Published Aug 13, 2001• 7 citations
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Abstract

We present a tomographic reconstruction procedure that exploits the symmetry of the SU(1,1) group existing in some physical systems. The tomographic algorithm is derived analytically and the convergence of the procedure is tested on Monte Carlo simulated data.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.64.033805

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