TY  - JOUR
AU  - Björk, G.
AU  - de Guise, H.
AU  - Klimov, Andrei B.
AU  - Hoz Iglesias, Pablo de la
AU  - Sánchez Soto, Luis Lorenzo
PY  - 2014
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevA.90.013830
SN  - 1050-2947
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33947
T2  - Physical review A
AB  - We put forward an operational degree of polarization that can be extended in a natural way to fields whose wave fronts are not necessarily planar. This measure appears as a distance from a state to the set of all of its polarization-transformed...
LA  - eng
M2  - 13830
PB  - American Physical Society
KW  - Hilbert-Schmidt distance
KW  - Quantum states
KW  - Electromagnetic-fields
KW  - Unpolarized radiation
KW  - Statistical distance
KW  - Correlation-matrices
KW  - Relative entropy
KW  - 3 dimensions
KW  - Entanglement
KW  - Coherence.
TI  - Classical distinguishability as an operational measure of polarization
TY  - journal article
VL  - 90
ER  -