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The Attributes of Nonclassical Light and their Mutual Relationship
Author(s) -
Schubert Max
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
annalen der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1521-3889
pISSN - 0003-3804
DOI - 10.1002/andp.19874990104
Subject(s) - poisson distribution , glauber , basis (linear algebra) , statistical physics , representation (politics) , connection (principal bundle) , photon , physics , mathematics , statistics , quantum mechanics , geometry , scattering , politics , political science , law
In the present paper the attributes of nonclassical light with respect to the theoretical basis, the experimental verification, and the applications are discussed and compared. If one ore more of the corresponding statistical measures (fluctuation excess, bunching excess, Poisson excess) attain negative values, surprising new properties of photon states occur. The analysis shows that under certain temporal and interaction conditions squeezing, antibunching, and sub‐Poisson behavior can accompany one or more of the other attributes. Also the connection of the attributes with the Glauber‐Sudarshan P ‐representation of the corresponding states is studied and yields important assertions.