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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Vector phase measurement in multipath quantum interferometry

Barry C. Sanders, Hubert de Guise, DAVID J. ROWE, A. Mann

Published Oct 21, 1999• 22 citations
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Abstract

We introduce vector phase states for multipath quantum interferometry and construct the vector phase positive operator-valued measure. We calculate SU (3) phase distributions for three-path quantum interferometry and discuss measurement limits.
DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/32/44/314

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