Quantum and Semiclassical Optics Journal of the European Optical Society Part B

Remarks on the construction of a Hermitian phase operator

Papai Roy, Barnana Roy

Published Dec 1, 1997• 3 citations

Abstract

We consider an oscillator system (whose states are realized in the space of Kravchuk polynomials) in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space. A Hermitian phase operator and the phase quanta raising and lowering operator are constructed using this framework. Also, we have constructed phase coherent states and examined their squeezing property.

DOI: 10.1088/1355-5111/9/6/001

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