Quantum and Semiclassical Optics Journal of the European Optical Society Part B
Boson inverse operators and associated coherent states
Anil Roy, C. L. Mehta
Abstract
Making use of the recently introduced inverses of boson creation and annihilation operators, the authors show that the 'photon-added coherent states' are eigenstates of the operator (a Dagger m aa Dagger -m ) and also of the operator (a-ma Dagger -1 ) with eigenvalue alpha . The authors discuss completeness of these states. They obtain another family of photon-added coherent states which are proportional to a -m mod alpha ), where m is a positive integer and mod alpha ) is a coherent state. They show that these are the eigenstates of the operator (a -m a m+1 ) with eigenvalue alpha . Analogously, the authors introduce 'photon-depleted coherent states', a Dagger -m mod alpha ), and show that these are the eigenstates of the operator (a+ma Dagger -1 ) with eigenvalue alpha . The conditions for squeezing and antibunching of photons have also been discussed.