The Wigner Function and its Marginal Distributions for Superposition of the Coherent State

Jiang Jun-qin

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations

Abstract

The superposition state |αθ〉=C(|α〉+eiθ|-α〉) from the coherent state was constructed.The θ and α dependences of the Wigner function and its marginal distributions for the superposition state were investigated.It is shown that the Wigner function and its marginal distributions are evidently depended on θ and α.

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