arXiv:quant-ph/0007076 · New Journal of Physics

Schrödinger-cat entangled state reconstruction in the Penning trap

Michol Massini, Mauro Fortunato, Stefano Mancini, Paolo Tombesi, David Vitali

Published Sep 12, 2000• 8 citations

Abstract

We present a tomographic method for the reconstruction of the full entangled quantum state for the cyclotron and spin degrees of freedom of an electron in a Penning trap. Numerical simulations of the reconstruction of several significant quantum states show that the method turns out to be quite accurate.

DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/2/1/320

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