Wigner functions and optical phase space
Introduction From the vacuum, different quantum states of light are born....
Introduction If you are planning to enter a graduate program in physics in the US, it is fairly certain you will (if you haven't already) hear horror stories about John David Jackson's canonical graduate electrodynamics textbook (simply referred to as "Jackson").
read moreBackground In 1967, Carl W. Helstrom (1925-2013) published a paper entitled Minimum mean-squared error of estimates in quantum statistics.
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