The Pauli Problem for Gaussian Quantum States: Geometric Interpretation

Abstract

We solve the Pauli tomography problem for Gaussian signals using the notion of Schur complement. We relate our results and method to a notion from convex geometry, polar duality. In our context polar duality can be seen as a sort of geometric Fourier transform and allows a geometric interpretation of the uncertainty principle and allows to apprehend the Pauli problem in a rather simple way.

Keywords

• covriance matrix
• polar duality
• uncertainty principle
• reconstruction problem