Displacement operator squeezed states for general systems
Hong‐Chen Fu, Ryu Sasaki B
Abstract
Among the three methods of defining the squeezed states of the harmonic oscillator, only two, i.e. the minimum uncertainty and ladder-operator methods were extended to investigate the squeezed states of the general symmetry systems. The only exception is the displacement-operator formalism. In this letter we propose a displacement-operator approach to the squeezed states for general systems. We show that the ladder-operator squeezed states for general symmetry systems can be obtained by applying an exponential displacement-operator on the ``vacuum'' state. The general formalism is presented and it is illustrated with su(1,1) as an explicit example. As a byproduct, the squeezed states of the q-deformed oscillator are obtained and, in particular, expressed in terms of the {\\it usual exponential} displacement-operator acting the ``vacuum'' state.