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Quantum Information and Measurement (QIM)

Quasiprobability Representation for Quantum Correlations and Measurements

Jan Sperling, Evan Meyer-Scott, Johannes Tiedau, Martin Bohmann, Sonja Barkhofen, Benjamin Brecht, Tim J. Bartley, W. Vogel, Ian A. Walmsley, Christine Silberhorn

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations
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10.1364/qim.2019.s4d.2

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