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The photodetection process under the conditions of an imperfect measurement device

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The process of cavity mode quantum state photodetection subject to a nonideal measurement device is under consideration. A set of nonorthogonal probabilistic operator valued measures (POVM’s) describing the photodetection process is suggested. The superoperators of conditional system evolution and their Kraus representations are obtained. Developed formalism is used to the quantum state reconstruction problem. We recalculate the probabilities of hypotheses about the initial state of cavity quantum mode in the case of unknown superposition of vacuum and single photon states.

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Miroshnichenko, G.P., Trifanov, A. The photodetection process under the conditions of an imperfect measurement device. Eur. Phys. J. D 67, 60 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2013-30739-8

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