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Journal of Modern Optics

Squeezed-state Superpositions in a Damped Nonlinear Oscillator

Gerard J Milburn, Antonio Mecozzi, P. Tombesi

Published Dec 1, 1989• 24 citations
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Abstract

The effect of dissipation on squeezed-state superposition states, generated in a nonlinear oscillator is investigated. Our results are presented in terms of the Q-function and the marginal distributions for a class of Hermitian operators.
DOI
10.1080/09500348914551721

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