Physical Review A

Density operator of unpolarized radiation

Hari Prakash, Naresh Chandra

Published Feb 1, 1974• 12 citations

Abstract

A direct derivation of the forms of density operator and phase-space distribution functions for unpolarized radiation is given.Received 1 August 1973DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.9.1021©1974 American Physical Society

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.9.1021

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