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Quantum mechanical photon-count formula derived by entangled state representation

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 Added by Liyun Hu
 Publication date 2010
  fields Physics
and research's language is English




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By introducing the thermo entangled state representation, we derived four new photocount distribution formulas for a given density operator of light field. It is shown that these new formulas, which is convenient to calculate the photocount, can be expressed as such integrations over Laguree-Gaussian function with characteristic function, Wigner function, Q-function, and P-function, respectively.



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