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On the meaning and interpretation of Tomography in abstract Hilbert spaces

V. I. Man'ko, G. Marmo, A. Simoni, A. Stern, E. C. G. Sudarshan, F. Ventriglia

abstract: The mechanism of describing quantum states by standard probability (tomographic one) instead of wave function or density matrix is elucidated. Quantum tomography is formulated in an abstract Hilbert space framework, by means of the identity decompositions in the Hilbert space of hermitian linear operators, with trace formula as scalar product of operators. Decompositions of identity are considered with respect to over-complete families of projectors labeled by extra parameters and containing a measure, depending on these parameters. It plays the role of a Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization kernel. When the measure is equal to one, the decomposition of identity coincides with a positive operator valued measure (POVM) decomposition. Examples of spin tomography, photon number tomography and symplectic tomography are reconsidered in this new framework.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0510156
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
Submitted to Phys. Lett. A
doi:
10.1016/j.physleta.2005.10.063
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0510156
journal_ref:
Phys.Lett.A351:1-12,2006
created:
2005-10-20

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