2009/06/13 by B. Neethi Simon, Sudhavathani Simon, Simon, B. Neethi +11
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0906.2467
4 pages, no figures
arxiv created 2009/06/13 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
The issue raised in this paper is classical in the sense of being ancient: which subset of 4X4 matrices should be accepted as physical Mueller matrices in polarization optics? Non-quantum entanglement between the polarization and spatial degrees of freedom of an electromagnetic beam is shown to provide the physical basis to resolve this issue in a definitive manner.