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Physical Review A

Squeezed states with thermal noise. I. Photon-number statistics

Paulina Marian, Tudor A. Marian

Published May 1, 1993• 165 citations
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Abstract

We investigate a free monochromatic electromagnetic field which is the superposition of a squeezed thermal radiation and a coherent one. The main tool in our analysis is the characteristic function that has a Gaussian form. We establish an analytic formula for an arbitrary correlation function, as well as its strong-squeezing limit. Besides the usual quasiprobability densities, the coherent-state, number-state, coordinate, and momentum representations of the density operator are derived. We point out the nonclassical oscillations of the photon-number distribution and find its generating function. Collaterally, displaced thermal states and squeezed thermal states are revisited as nontrivial particular cases. We examine finally the squeezing properties of the field using the distribution functions of the quadratures.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.47.4474

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By use of the squeezed-number-state basis, we study several features of the squeezed thermal states. Higher-order squeezing properties are found to be entirely determined by the second-order ones. The photon-number distribution is expressed in closed form in terms of a Legendre polynomial. We point out that at a critical value of the squeeze parameter, pairwise oscillations of the photon-number distribution set in. Finally, a compact analytical expression of the exact lth-order correlation function is derived and examined.
We examine the influence of thermal noise on several non-classical properties of squeezed number states. In order to evaluate arbitrary-order moments of both amplitude and quadrature operators of the superposition, we use a normal-ordering technique based on McCoy's theorem. Our analytical results are compact formulae involving Gauss hypergeometric functions. We find that the thermal mean occupancy sufficient to destroy squeezing to any order is less than . Other non-classical features of a squeezed number state, such as pairwise oscillations in the photon number distribution, sub-Poissonian statistics and amplitude-squared squeezing disappear completely above this threshold.
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