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Understanding the relationship between Phase Space Distributions (Wigner vs Glauber-Sudarshan P vs Husimi Q)
I am moving into a new field and after thorough literature research need help appreciating what is out there.
In the continuos variable formulation of optical state space.
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Can we get quasiprobability distributions other than $P,Q,W$ from generalised characteristic functions?
It's a standard result that the three well-known quasiprobability distributions can all be expressed in terms of the "$s$-ordered characteristic functions" as
$$
W(\alpha) = \int\frac{d^2\...
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Pegg-Barnett phase implementation does not seem to work
I attempt to monitor the phase of a wavevector $|\psi\rangle$.
As I found (e.g. here ), a matrix representation for the Pegg-Barnett phase operator in Fock base can be obtained as
$$\Phi=\sum_{m,n,...
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