On the complementarity of the quadrature observables

Details On the complementarity of the quadrature observables On the complementarity of the quadrature observables

2009-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/0912.3384v1

Found. Phys. 40 (2010) 1419-1428

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Quantum Physics

Dedicated to Peter Mittelstaedt in honour of his eightieth birthday

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In this paper we investigate the coupling properties of pairs of quadrature observables, showing that, apart from the Weyl relation, they share the same coupling properties as the position-momentum pair. In particular, they are complementary. We determine the marginal observables of a covariant phase space observable with respect to an arbitrary rotated reference frame, and observe that these marginal observables are unsharp quadrature observables. The related distributions constitute the Radon tranform of a phase space distribution of the covariant phase space observable. Since the quadrature distributions are the Radon transform of the Wigner function of a state, we also exhibit the relation between the quadrature observables and the tomography observable, and show how to construct the phase space observable from the quadrature observables. Finally, we give a method to measure together with a single measurement scheme any complementary pair of quadrature observables.

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