TY - JOUR AU - Luis Aina, Alfredo PY - 2006 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.063806 SN - 1050-2947 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51495 T2 - Physical review A AB - We study nonclassical polarization states characterized by polarization distributions taking negative values. We consider two different families of polarization distributions that include polarization analogs of the Wigner function. We apply different... LA - eng M2 - 063806_1 PB - American Physical Society KW - Quasi-probability distributions KW - Discrete wigner function KW - Phase-space formulation KW - Quantum-mechanics KW - Coherent states KW - Non-classicality KW - 2-level atoms KW - Spin KW - Systems KW - Optics TI - Nonclassical polarization states TY - journal article VL - 73 ER -