Quantum Optical Phase

Stephen M. Barnett and David T. Pegg
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Stephen M. Barnett: University of Strathclyde, Department of Physics and Applied Physics
David T. Pegg: Griffith University Nathan, Faculty of Science and Technology

A chapter in Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement, 1997, pp 415-422 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Simple physical ideas lead us to identify the phase of a single mode of the electromagnetic field as the quantity conjugate to the photon number. This in turn leads to the form of the phase probability distribution. The phase operator cannot be represented in the conventional infinite dimensional Hilbert space but can be expressed by means of a finite-dimensional state space together with a suitable limiting procedure. We introduce the Hermitian optical phase operator and describe its most important properties.

Keywords: Number State; Photon Number; Weak Limit; Phase Operator; Phase Probability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5923-8_44

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