Quantum coherence: myth or fact?

Details Quantum coherence: myth or fact? Quantum coherence: myth or fact?

2003-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312108v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

This work has been submitted to Physics Letters A and presented in the meeting of JPS in 2002

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physleta.2004.10.061

It has recently been argued that the inability to measure the absolute phase of an electromagnetic field prohibits the representation of a laser's output as a quantum optical coherent state. This argument has generally been considered technically correct but conceptually disturbing. Indeed, it would seem to place in question the very concept of the coherent state. Here we show that this argument fails to take into account a fundamental principle that not only re-admits the coherent state as legitimate, but formalizes a fundamental concept about model building in general, and in quantum mechanics in particular.

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