(1) P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii Pr. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russia
Abstract:
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.