辐射场的最大熵原理(英文)

The maximum entropy principle for radiation fields

Jaynes ET的最大熵原理指出如何从随机变量的测量数据推导出最合理概率分布.该原理最直接的应用是给出了所有热力学关系,这是对具有能量作为单一测量值的经典系统进行熵的最大化处理的结果.本研究将最大熵原理推广到量子力学系统,揭示辐射场的量子统计性质.结果显示,随着可测量力学量类别的增加,依次自动引出混沌态、相干态和压缩态等一系列辐射场态.值得关注的是运用该方法,所有辐射场态对热噪声的依赖性可被定量描述.该研究结果有望用于量子光学、量子信息学、生物光子学及相关交叉学科领域.

The maximum entropy principle discovered by Jaynes E T governs a search of the most reasonable probability assignment of stochastic variable,based on the measured data.One of the simplest applications of this principle lies in that all the thermodynamical relations are derived from the maximizing entropy of the system with energy as a single measured value.The maximum entropy principle is used then for the radiation field as a quantum system.Our results show that with an increase of the number of measurable quantities,the thermal field,the coherent states as well as the squeezed states are automatically introduced in turn;in particular,the dependence of all the properties of these radiation fields on the thermal noise is formulated quantitatively.The fundamental results obtained in this paper are expected to provide a basis for applications of the maximum entropy principle in some fields,such as quantum optics,quantum informatics,biophotonics,and related interdisciplinary science.