Entropy

Minimal Products of Coordinate and Momentum Uncertainties of High Orders: Significant and Weak High-Order Squeezing

Miguel Citeli de Freitas, Vitor Dantas, V. V. Dodonov

Published Sep 3, 2020• 4 citations

Abstract

We consider the problem of minimization of products of mean values of the high powers of operators x and p. From this point of view, we study several two-term superpositions of the Fock states, as well as three popular families of infinite superpositions: squeezed states, even/odd coherent states, and orthogonal even coherent states (or compass states). The new element is the analysis of products of the corresponding (co)variances and the related generalized (Robertson-Schrödinger) intelligent states (RSIS). In particular, we show that both Fock and pure Gaussian homogeneous states are RSIS for the fourth powers (but not for the sixth ones). We show that lower bounds of the high-order uncertainty products can be significantly below the vacuum values. In this connection, the concept of significant and weak high-order squeezing is introduced.

DOI: 10.3390/e22090980

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