1997/08/23 by Richard Simon, R. Simon, Mary Selvadoray +6
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9708038
Five pages in revtex with one ps figure included using epsf
arxiv created 1997/08/23 · openalex publication_date 1997/08/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We exploit results from the classical Stieltjes moment problem to bring out the totality of all the information regarding phase insensitive nonclassicality of a state as captured by the photon number distribution pn. Central to our approach is the realization that n !pn constitutes the sequence of moments of a (quasi) probability distribution, notwithstanding the fact that pn can by itself be regarded as a probability distribution. This leads to classicality restrictions on pn that are local in n involving pn's for only a small number of consecutive n's, enabling a critical examination of the conjecture that oscillation in pn is a signature of nonclassicality.