Physical Review A
Nonclassical properties of the q -coherent and q -cat states of the Biedenharn-Macfarlane q oscillator with q>1
Hossein Fakhri, A. Hashemi
Abstract
This paper has been motivated by a recent paper by Dey [Phys. Rev. D 91, 044024 (2015)] on the known Arik-Coon $q$ oscillator. We construct $q$ coherent, even and odd $q$-cat states in Fock representation for the Biedenharn-Macfarlane $q$ oscillator with $q>1$ and study their nonclassical properties. The $q$-coherent states minimize the Heisenberg uncertainty relation between the generalized position and momentum operators as well as the $x$ and $y$ components of a $q$-deformed $\text{su}(1,1)$ algebra in the Schwinger boson representation. The latter is also minimized by the even and odd $q$-cat states. We show that, contrary to the undeformed harmonic oscillator, the squeezing effect in both position and momentum operators can be exhibited by odd $q$-cat states. It is also violated by even $q$-cat states. Furthermore, it is shown that the antibunching effect and sub-Poissonian or super-Poissonian statistics can simultaneously appear by each of the even or odd $q$-cat states. Finally, a unitary Fock representation of the $q$-deformed $\text{su}(1,1)$ algebra is obtained by the $q$-deformed Bargmann-Fock realization.