Mixtures of coherent and thermal fields

When I started my PhD, there arose the need to describe mixtures of coherent and thermal states, specifically the diagonal elements $p(n)$ of the density matrix (or probability to have $n$ particles) and the postdoc there came up with something that looked hideous to me: $p_{\mathrm{coh}}(n)+p_{\mathrm{th}}(n)$ (normalized).

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References

  1. Effects of Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons in microcavities on the polarization of emitted light. F. P. Laussy, I. A. Shelykh, G. Malpuech and A. Kavokin in Phys. Rev. B 73:035315 (2006). Pdf-48px.png