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Physical Review Letters

Production of Squeezed States in the Interaction between Electromagnetic Radiation and an Electron Gas

Y. Ben-Aryeh, A. Mann

Published Mar 11, 1985• 40 citations
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Abstract

We show that squeezed states can be generated by the interaction of coherent electromagnetic radiation with a plasma. Inside the plasma the electromagnetic field is represented by quasiphotons. The conditions for obtaining squeezed states in this system are related to dispersion relations of the quasiphotons in the plasma.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.54.1020

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