Unpolarized states and hidden polarization
arXiv:1409.7486 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.90.043826
Abstract
We capitalize on a multipolar expansion of the polarisation density matrix, in which multipoles appear as successive moments of the Stokes variables. When all the multipoles up to a given order vanish, we can properly say that the state is th-order unpolarized, as it lacks of polarization information to that order. First-order unpolarized states coincide with the corresponding classical ones, whereas unpolarized to any order tally with the quantum notion of fully invariant states. In between these two extreme cases, there is a rich variety of situations that are explored here. The existence of \textit{hidden} polarisation emerges in a natural way in this context.
7 pages, 3 eps-color figures. Submitted to PRA. Comments welcome!
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