Abstract In this paper we construct real and imaginary cat states of graphene and examine some properties of such states. It has been shown that these cat states exhibit nonclassical features like oscillation of the distribution function, sub-Poissonian statistics and quadrature squeezing.
Abstract Using exfoliation of graphite, bilayer graphene which is composed of two monolayers of carbon atoms can be obtained. Defining annihilation operator, coherent states for charge carrier of bilayer graphene in a perpendicular magnetic field can be calculated. In this paper, introducing even and odd superposition of bilayer graphene coherent states, we investigate their non-classical properties including entanglement, statistical properties and squeezing. With the use of Concurrence, we have found that these states are entangled and the entanglement goes to zero for large values of coherency parameter. Also, using Mandel parameter and second coherence function, we have realized that only odd states represent sub-Poissonian statistics in some ranges of coherency parameter. In addition, our squeezing considerations show that none of the states exhibits squeezing in quadrature operators. The results of these properties for bilayer graphene coherent states, are different from the similar calculations for monolayer ones.
The real and imaginary negative binomial states formed by a superposition of the negative binomial states are introduced. The sub-Poissonian statistics, Wigner function and squeezing properties of the real and imaginary states are studied in detail. The oscillatory character of the photon distribution due to the quantum interference between the two components is shown. Moreover, we find that these states are real and imaginary nonlinear Schrödinger cat states and give the corresponding ladder operator formalisms. We also discuss how to generate these general real quantum superposition states based on the intensity-dependent Jaynes-Cummings model.
We study several classical-like properties of q-deformed nonlinear coherent states as well as nonclassical behaviors of q-deformed version of the Schr\"odinger cat states in noncommutative space. Coherent states in q-deformed space are found to be minimum uncertainty states together with the squeezed photon distributions unlike the ordinary systems, where the photon distributions are always Poissonian. Several advantages of utilizing cat states in noncommutative space over the standard quantum mechanical spaces have been reported here. For instance, the q-deformed parameter has been utilized to improve the squeezing of the quadrature beyond the ordinary case. Most importantly, the parameter provides an extra degree of freedom by which we achieve both quadrature squeezed and number squeezed cat states at the same time in a single system, which is impossible to achieve from ordinary cat states.