This review covers the latest developments in continuous-variable quantum-state
tomography of optical fields and photons, placing a special emphasis on its practical aspects …

We present a review of theoretical and experimental aspects of multiphoton quantum optics.
Multiphoton processes occur and are important for many aspects of matter–radiation …

We give an explicit way to experimentally determine the evolution operators which
completely describe the dynamics of a quantum-mechanical black box: an arbitrary open …

This book is a comprehensive survey of most of the theoretical and experimental
achievements in the field of quantum estimation of states and operations. Albeit still quite …

An algorithm for quantum-state estimation based on the maximum-likelihood estimation is
proposed. Existing techniques for state reconstruction based on the inversion of measured …

A state of a quantum-mechanical system is completely described by a density matrix or a
phase-space distribution such as the Wigner function. The complete family of squeezed …

The state of a physical system is the mathematical description that provides complete
information on the system. Its knowledge is equivalent to knowing the result of any possible …

" Quantum theory is the soul of theoretical physics. It is not just a theory of specific physical
systems, but rather a new framework with universal applicability. This book shows how we …

Beams of atoms can exhibit interference and diffraction phenomena just like waves of light.
For a coherent beam of helium atoms in a double-slit experiment, measurements of the …

Phase-estimation protocols provide a fundamental benchmark for the field of quantum
metrology. The latter represents one of the most relevant applications of quantum theory …