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View SchemaUnpolarized light in quantum optics
| Authors | Jonas Soderholm, Gunnar Bjork, Alexei Trifonov |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0007099 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0007099 |
| DOI | 10.1134/1.1412667 |
| Journal | Opt. Spectrosc. 91 (2001) 532-534 |
Abstract
We present a new derivation of the unpolarized quantum states of light, whose general form was first derived by Prakash and Chandra [Phys. Rev. A 4, 796 (1971)]. Our derivation makes use of some basic group theory, is straightforward, and offers some new insights.
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