WIGNER DISTRIBUTION FOR DENSITY-OF-STATES IN QUANTUM OPTICS

We demonstrate the occurrence of the well-known Wigner distribution fo r density of states, which arises commonly in nuclear physics, in a cl ass of problems in quantum optics. We show how such a distribution can be probed, and analyze the effects of dissipation on this distributio n, one of which is to make the underlying random matrix non-Hermitian.