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Special Classes of Orthogonal Polynomials and Corresponding Quadratures of Gaussian Type
MSC 2010: 33C47, 42C05, 41A55, 65D30, 65D32In the first part of this survey paper we present a short account on some important properties of orthogonal polynomials on the real line, including computational methods for constructing coefficients in the fundamental three-term recurrence relation for orthogonal polynomials, and mention some basic facts on Gaussian quadrature rules. In the second part we discuss our Mathematica package Orthogonal Polynomials (see [2]) and show some applications to problems with strong nonclassical weights on (0;+1), including a conjecture for an oscillatory weight on [¡1; 1]. Finally, we give some new results on orthogonal polynomials on radial rays in the complex plane
Sampling functions for multimode homodyne tomography with a single local oscillator
We derive various sampling functions for multimode homodyne tomography with a
single local oscillator. These functions allow us to sample multimode
s-parametrized quasidistributions, density matrix elements in Fock basis, and
s-ordered moments of arbitrary order directly from the measured quadrature
statistics. The inevitable experimental losses can be compensated by proper
modification of the sampling functions. Results of Monte Carlo simulations for
squeezed three-mode state are reported and the feasibility of reconstruction of
the three-mode Q-function and s-ordered moments from 10^7 sampled data is
demonstrated.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, REVTeX, submitted Phys. Rev.
Quantum statistical properties of the radiation field in a cavity with a movable mirror
A quantum system composed of a cavity radiation field interacting with a
movable mirror is considered and quantum statistical properties of the field
are studied. Such a system can serve in principle as an idealized meter for
detection of a weak classical force coupled to the mirror which is modelled by
a quantum harmonic oscillator. It is shown that the standard quantum limit on
the measurement of the mirror position arises naturally from the properties of
the system during its dynamical evolution. However, the force detection
sensitivity of the system falls short of the corresponding standard quantum
limit. We also study the effect of the nonlinear interaction between the moving
mirror and the radiation pressure on the quadrature fluctuations of the
initially coherent cavity field.Comment: REVTeX, 9 pages, 5 figures. More info on
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Direct sampling of exponential phase moments of smoothed Wigner functions
We investigate exponential phase moments of the s-parametrized
quasidistributions (smoothed Wigner functions). We show that the knowledge of
these moments as functions of s provides, together with photon-number
statistics, a complete description of the quantum state. We demonstrate that
the exponential phase moments can be directly sampled from the data recorded in
balanced homodyne detection and we present simple expressions for the sampling
kernels. The phase moments are Fourier coefficients of phase distributions
obtained from the quasidistributions via integration over the radial variable
in polar coordinates. We performed Monte Carlo simulations of the homodyne
detection and we demonstrate the feasibility of direct sampling of the moments
and subsequent reconstruction of the phase distribution.Comment: RevTeX, 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted Phys. Rev.
Fast Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design for Seismic Source Inversion
We develop a fast method for optimally designing experiments in the context
of statistical seismic source inversion. In particular, we efficiently compute
the optimal number and locations of the receivers or seismographs. The seismic
source is modeled by a point moment tensor multiplied by a time-dependent
function. The parameters include the source location, moment tensor components,
and start time and frequency in the time function. The forward problem is
modeled by elastodynamic wave equations. We show that the Hessian of the cost
functional, which is usually defined as the square of the weighted L2 norm of
the difference between the experimental data and the simulated data, is
proportional to the measurement time and the number of receivers. Consequently,
the posterior distribution of the parameters, in a Bayesian setting,
concentrates around the "true" parameters, and we can employ Laplace
approximation and speed up the estimation of the expected Kullback-Leibler
divergence (expected information gain), the optimality criterion in the
experimental design procedure. Since the source parameters span several
magnitudes, we use a scaling matrix for efficient control of the condition
number of the original Hessian matrix. We use a second-order accurate finite
difference method to compute the Hessian matrix and either sparse quadrature or
Monte Carlo sampling to carry out numerical integration. We demonstrate the
efficiency, accuracy, and applicability of our method on a two-dimensional
seismic source inversion problem
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