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Quantum tomography of input-output processes

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2000-11
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We demonstrate the possibility of practical tomographic determination of arbitrary input-output transformations. It is shown that the Liouville-space formalism provides a generalization of standard tomography encompassing the reconstruction of processes as well as of quantum states.
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