Inverted spectroscopy and interferometry for quantum-state reconstruction of systems with SU(2) symmetry

Abstract

We consider how the conventional spectroscopic and interferometric schemes can be rearranged to serve for reconstructing quantum states of physical systems possessing SU(2) symmetry. The discussed systems include a collection of two-level atoms, a two-mode quantized radiation field with a fixed total number of photons, and a single laser-cooled ion in a two-dimensional harmonic trap with a fixed total number of vibrational quanta. In the proposed rearrangement, the standard spectroscopic and interferometric experiments are inverted. Usually one measures an unknown frequency or phase shift using a system prepared in a known quantum state. Our aim is just the inverse one, i.e., to use a well-calibrated apparatus with known transformation parameters to measure unknown quantum states.

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