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Squeezing of Wigner functions by pulsating harmonic potential wells

Antoine Royer

Published Jul 1, 1990• 2 citations

Abstract

The Wigner phase-space representation of quantum mechanics is used to understand simply the squeezing of quantum states by any pulsating harmonic potential well that acts as a classical amplifier. The typical case is a harmonic potential whose width alternates between two different values at each quarter of a period.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.42.560

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