Coherent states and uncertainty relations

PEKKA J. LAHTI, Maciej Maczynski

V. V. Dodonov, E.V. Kurmyshev, Vladimir I. Man’ko

Alexander D. Sukhanov

Jeong Ryeol Choi

We obtained the uncertainty relation in squeezed states for a time-dependent oscillator. The uncertainty relation in coherent states is same as that of the number states with n=0. However, the uncertainty relation in squeezed states does not satisfy this property and depends on squeezing parameter c. For instance, the uncertainty relation is ℏ/2 which is the minimum value as far as quantum mechanics permits for c=1, same as that in coherent state for c=±∞, and infinity for c=-1. If the time-dependency of the Hamiltonian for the system vanishes, the uncertainty relation in squeezed states will no longer depend on c and becomes the same as that in number state with n=0, like the uncertainty relation in coherent states.

A. V. Kozlovskiĭ

It is shown that the Heisenberg uncertainty relation (or soft uncertainty relation) determined by the commutation properties of operators of electromagnetic field quadratures differs significantly from the Robertson–Schrödinger uncertainty relation (or rigorous uncertainty relation) determined by the quantum correlation properties of field quadratures. In the case of field quantum states, for which mutually noncommuting field operators are quantum-statistically independent or their quantum central correlation moment is zero, the rigorous uncertainty relation makes it possible to measure simultaneously and exactly the observables corresponding to both operators or measure exactly the observable of one of the operators at a finite measurement uncertainty for the other observable. The significant difference between the rigorous and soft uncertainty relations for quantum superpositions of coherent states and the two-photon coherent state of electromagnetic field (which is a state with minimum uncertainty, according to the rigorous uncertainty relation) is analyzed.

D. A. Trifonov

Characteristic uncertainty relations and their related squeezed states are briefly reviewed and compared in accordance with the generalizations of three equivalent definitions of canonical coherent states. The standard SU(1, 1) coherent states are shown to be the unique states that minimize the Schrödinger uncertainty relation for every pair of the three generators and the Robertson relation for the three generators. The characteristic uncertainty inequalities are naturally extended to the case of several states. It is shown that these inequalities can be written in the equivalent complementary form.