Quantum Phase

  • M. Heni
  • M. Freyberger
  • W. P. Schleich
Conference paper

Abstract

In June 1960 the first in this series of most successful Rochester conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics took place. At this meeting devoted to Coherence Properties of Electromagnetic Radiation Joe Weber presented a paper1 with the title “Phase as a Dynamical Variable”. It is remarkable that 35 years later this question it is still such a hot topic that it is the subject of various invited and contributed papers2,3 at the seventh conference of this series. Indeed over the last years the question of a proper quantum mechanical description of phase has attracted a lot of attention. This is on one hand due to the experimental progress in creating non classical states of light which display phase properties different from those of a coherent state, and on the other hand was triggered by the Pegg-Barnett proposal for a hermitian phase operator. Moreover the recent operational approach by Noh, Fougères, and Mandel (NFM) opened a new era in this long standing debate. There are many indications that phase will still be a major topic at the next meeting in the new millennium for which Emil Wolf had us sign up already.

Keywords

Coherent State Density Operator Quantum Phase Input Mode Phase Operator 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • M. Heni
    • 1
  • M. Freyberger
    • 1
  • W. P. Schleich
    • 1
    • 2
  1. 1.Abteilung für QuantenphysikUniversität UlmUlmGermany
  2. 2.Max-Planck Institut für QuantenoptikGarchingGermany

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