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Publications and source records attributed to Erwin Brüning.
Using only elementary calculus we prove that the balanced homodyne detector measures the quadrature phase amplitude of a signal. More precisely, after the measurement of photon numbers $l$, the collapse of the composite state of a strong laser beam and a signal approximates the collapse of the signal to the eigen-state of quadrature phase amplitude with eigen-value $r$.
It turns out that a parametrization of degenerate density matrices requires a parametrization of $\mathfrak{F}=U(n)/({U(k_1)\times U(k_2)\times \cdots \times U(k_m)})\quad n=k_1 +\cdots + k_m $ where $U(k)$ denotes the set of all unitary $k\times k$-matrices with complex entries. Unfortunately the parametrization of this quotient space is quite involved. Our solution does not rely on Lie algebra methods {directly,} but succeeds through the construction of suitable sections for natural projections, by using techniques from the theory of homogeneous spaces. We mention the relation to the Lie algebra back ground and conclude with two concrete examples.