1.4.2.0 componentlist.isphysical

componentlist.isphysical - Function

1.4.2 Check if a component is physically plausible
Description

The isphysical function is used to check if the specified components meet a number of criteria that must be true if the component could be used to model a physical process. These criteria are:

I >=
That the flux, when represented using the Stokes representation, has a zero imaginary value.

The “Flux properties” section of the ComponentModels module documentation describes how it is possible to generate a component which has non-zero imaginary value in the Stokes representation.

It is possible to check a number of components at once by specifying the indicies of all the components. The returned value will only be True if all the specified components are physical.

Arguments


Inputs
which	A vector of indices Indices must be between 1 and the list length
	allowed:	intArray
	Default:	-1

Returns
bool

Example

      include ’componentlist.g’
      cl := emptycomponentlist();
      cl.simulate(2);
      cl.setflux(1, [10, 1+3i, 1-4i, 0]print cl.isphysical(1:2), polarization=’linear’);
      print cl.isphysical(1:2)

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