Singular Mueller matrices

Singular Mueller matrices.

Singular Mueller matrices play an important role in polarization algebra and have peculiar properties that stem from the fact that either the medium exhibits maximum diattenuation and/or polarizance or because its associated canonical depolarizer has the property of fully randomizing the circular component (at least) of the states of polarization of light incident on it. The formal reasons for ...

Depolarizing differential Mueller matrices.

The evolution of a polarized beam can be described by the differential formulation of Mueller calculus. The nondepolarizing differential Mueller matrices are well known. However, they only account for 7 out of the 16 independent parameters that are necessary to model a general anisotropic depolarizing medium. In this work we present the nine differential Mueller matrices for general depolarizin...

A degree of freedom and metric approach for non- singular Mueller matrices characterizing passive systems

Singular values of convex functions of matrices

‎Let $A_{i},B_{i},X_{i},i=1,dots,m,$ be $n$-by-$n$ matrices such that $‎sum_{i=1}^{m}leftvert A_{i}rightvert ^{2}$ and $‎sum_{i=1}^{m}leftvert B_{i}rightvert ^{2}$  are nonzero matrices and each $X_{i}$ is‎ ‎positive semidefinite‎. ‎It is shown that if $f$ is a nonnegative increasing ‎convex function on $left[ 0,infty right) $ satisfying $fleft( 0right)‎ ‎=0 $‎, ‎then  $$‎2s_{j}left( fleft( fra...

Singular value inequalities for positive semidefinite matrices

In this note‎, ‎we obtain some singular values inequalities for positive semidefinite matrices by using block matrix technique‎. ‎Our results are similar to some inequalities shown by Bhatia and Kittaneh in [Linear Algebra Appl‎. ‎308 (2000) 203-211] and [Linear Algebra Appl‎. ‎428 (2008) 2177-2191]‎.