Tomography of Binomial States of the Radiation Field

The symplectic, optical, and photon-number tomographic symbols of binomial states of the radiation field are studied. Explicit relations for all tomograms of the binomial states are obtained. Two measures for nonclassical properties of these states are discussed.     

Evolution of probability measures associated with quantum systems

We derive the evolution equation for probability distributions and characteristic functions of the quantum tomograms associated with the linear and nonlinear evolutions of quantum states.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 142, No. 2, pp. 365–370, February, 2005.     

On the tomographic picture of quantum mechanics

We formulate necessary and sufficient conditions for a symplectic tomogram of a quantum state to determine the density state. We establish a connection between the (re)construction by means of symplectic tomograms with the construction by means of Naimark positive definite functions on the Weyl-Heisenberg group. This connection is used to formulate properties which guarantee that tomographic probabilities describe quantum states in the probability representation of quantum mechanics.     

Feynman integral and perturbation theory in quantum tomography

We present a definition for tomographic Feynman path integral as representation for quantum tomograms via Feynman path integral in the phase space. The proposed representation is the potential basis for investigation of Path Integral Monte Carlo numerical methods with quantum tomograms. Tomographic Feynman path integral is a representation of solution of initial problem for evolution equation for tomograms. The perturbation theory for quantum tomograms is constructed.     

Photon-Number Tomography of Multimode States and Positivity of the Density Matrix

For one-mode and multimode light, the photon-number tomograms of Gaussian quantum states are explicitly calculated in terms of multivariable Hermite polynomials. Positivity of the tomograms is shown to be a necessary condition for positivity of the density matrix.