PHOTO-COUNT STATISTICS OF QUANTUM-MECHANICAL SUPERPOSITIONS OF COHERENT STATES

Authors
MARIAN P MARIAN TA
Citation
P. Marian et Ta. Marian, PHOTO-COUNT STATISTICS OF QUANTUM-MECHANICAL SUPERPOSITIONS OF COHERENT STATES, Physics letters. A, 198(3), 1995, pp. 163-166
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759601
Volume
198
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
163 - 166
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(1995)198:3<163:PSOQSO>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
We express the photo-count distribution and its higher-order factorial moments as contour integrals of the generating function of the photon -number probabilities. Then we apply them to derive the photo-count st atistics of a superposition of two arbitrary coherent states.