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A new and general quantum state reconstruction method is proposed. It can be applied to reconstruct the state of a particle in an arbitrary, time-dependent potential. The state is reconstructed by measuring the position probability distribution at n + 1 different time values. This yields an n-th order Taylor polynomial expansion of the density matrix in the off-diagonal variable.
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Johansen, L.M. (2002). Hydrodynamical Quantum State Reconstruction. In: Kumar, P., D’Ariano, G.M., Hirota, O. (eds) Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47097-7_22
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