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In this chapter, we study Glauber’s quantum theory of coherence and photon counting.
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Orszag, M. (2016). Quantum Theory of Coherence. In: Quantum Optics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29037-9_6
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