Bosyk, G. M.Bellomo, G.Luis Aina, Alfredo2023-06-172023-06-172018-02-022469-992610.1103/PhysRevA.97.023804https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/11987©2018 American Physical Society. G.M.B. and G.B. acknowledge CONICET (Argentina) for financial support. A.L. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Project No. FIS2016-75199-P, and from the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid research consortium QUITEMAD+, Grant No. S2013/ICE-2801.We propose a formal resource-theoretic approach to quantify the degree of polarization of two- and three-dimensional random electromagnetic fields. This endows the space of spectral polarization matrices with the orders induced by majorization or convex mixing that naturally recover the best-known polarization measures.engjournal articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.023804https://journals.aps.orgopen access535Random unitary transformationsCoherence properties3 dimensionsRadiationLightÓptica (Física)2209.19 Óptica Física