Non-Classical Behaviour of Scalar Wave Fields in Any State of Spatial Coherence and Point Sources in the Phase-Space Representation
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2010-05-20 v1
Abstract
In the framework of the spatial coherence wavelets, different features of the first-order spatial coherence (Young's interference) are analysed by calculating the corresponding marginal power spectrum, a close related quantity to the classical Wigner Distribution Function (WDF) of the optical field. The consideration of radiant and virtual point sources evidences some effects, conventionally attributed to non-classical correlations of light, although such type of correlations are not explicitly included in the model. Specifically, a light state is produced that has similar morphology to the WDF of the well-known quantum Schr\"odinger cat state.
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@article{arxiv.1005.3438,
title = {Non-Classical Behaviour of Scalar Wave Fields in Any State of Spatial Coherence and Point Sources in the Phase-Space Representation},
author = {Román Castañeda and Gustavo Cañas-Cardona and Herbert Vinck-Posada},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.3438},
year = {2010}
}