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Unpolarized light in quantum optics

Jonas Soderholm, Gunnar Bjork, Alexei Trifonov

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0007099

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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