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Nonclassicality and the concept of local constraints on the photon number distribution

R. Simon, Mary Selvadoray, Arvind, N. Mukunda

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9708038

Abstract

We exploit results from the classical Stieltjes moment problem to bring out the totality of all the information regarding phase insensitive nonclassicality of a state as captured by the photon number distribution pn. Central to our approach is the realization that n !pn constitutes the sequence of moments of a (quasi) probability distribution, notwithstanding the fact that pn can by itself be regarded as a probability distribution. This leads to classicality restrictions on pn that are local in n involving pn's for only a small number of consecutive n's, enabling a critical examination of the conjecture that oscillation in pn is a signature of nonclassicality.

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