Testing quantum mechanics: a statistical approach

• Authors: Mankei Tsang
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

As experiments continue to push the quantum-classical
boundary using increasingly complex dynamical systems, the
interpretation of experimental data becomes more and more
challenging: when the observations are noisy, indirect, and
limited, how can we be sure that we are observing quantum
behavior? This tutorial highlights some of the difficulties
in such experimental tests of quantum mechanics, using optomechanics
as the central example, and discusses how the
issues can be resolved using techniques from statistics and
insights from quantum information theory.

Discipline

• 42.50.Pq: Cavity quantum electrodynamics; micromasers
• 42.65.Ky: Frequency conversion; harmonic generation, including higher-order harmonic generation(see also 42.79.Nv Optical frequency converters)
• 42.65.Lm: Parametric down conversion and production of entangled photons(see also 42.50.Dv Quantum state engineering and measurements; for optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers, see 42.65.Yj)
• 42.79.Hp: Optical processors, correlators, and modulators

• Publisher: Versita
• Journal: Quantum Measurements and Quantum Metrology
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 84-109

Dates

accepted

28 - 11 - 2013

online

31 - 12 - 2013

received

8 - 8 - 2013

Contributors

author

Mankei Tsang

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
  National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3,
  Singapore 117583
• Department of Physics, National University of Singapore,
  2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117551

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/qmetro-2013-0007