1304.1668 (A. Luis et al.)

Reconciling motion and stationarity in single-photon polarization states    [PDF]

A. Luis, A. S. Sanz

The question of the representation of quantum stationary partially polarized waves as random superpositions of different polarization ellipses is addressed. To this end, the Bohmian formulation of quantum mechanics is considered and extended to quantum optical polarization. As is shown, this approach properly combines definite time evolving trajectories with rigorous stationary quantum distributions via the topology displayed by the associated phase field.

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