It is well known that the diagonal matrix elements of all-order coherent states for the quantized electromagnetic field have to constitute a Poisson distribution with respect to the photon number. The present work gives first the summary of a constructive scheme, developed previously, which determin
Non-classicality and coherence of squeezed states
โ Scribed by Reinhard Honegger; Alfred Rieckers
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 341 KB
- Volume
- 335
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-4371
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โฆ Synopsis
After having set up a concise frame for pure and mixed all-order coherent states, we let them undergo a rather general squeezing transformation. These squeezed states are always non-classical, but some-apparently experimentally preparable-of them are still second-order coherent. They combine peculiar properties of their quantum uctuations with the ordering features of coherence, and deserve special attention. Quite generally, several criteria for non-classicality are discussed and applied to the considered class of squeezed states. The connection between non-classicality and anti-bunching resp. sub-Poissonian photon statistics is shown to be more subtle than quantum optical usage suggests.
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