Antibunching properties of states formed from superpositions of squeezed coherent states are studied. The even squeezed coherent cat states mostly show bunching, while the odd cat states show antibunching in a large parameter range.
Based on the quantum superposition principle,we construct a new type of superposition composed of coherent state and squeezed state |φ=N(|α+eiφ|βg);and study its squeezing effect and photon anti-bunching effect.The results show that this kind of superposition exhibits fluent quantum properties.When superposed as even/odd coherent states,the superposition exhibits some properties of both even/odd coherent states and squeezed even/odd coherent states.The even/odd coherent and coherent state can be obtained as a special case when the squeezed factor r is zero.
In contrast to coherent states \ensuremath{\Vert}\ensuremath{\alpha}〉 which have zero Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect [i.e., g(2)(0)=1], it is shown that generalized coherent states \ensuremath{\Vert}n,\ensuremath{\alpha}〉 are antibunched for \ensuremath{\Vert}\ensuremath{\alpha}${\ensuremath{\Vert}}^{2}$(1/2). The range of values for \ensuremath{\alpha} (real) in terms of the squeezing parameter r (real) for the squeezed coherent state \ensuremath{\Vert}\ensuremath{\alpha},r〉 in order to exhibit bunching and antibunching are obtained. The conditions and the exact range of values for r and \ensuremath{\alpha} for a given n for generalized squeezed coherent states \ensuremath{\Vert}n,\ensuremath{\alpha},r〉 to exhibit bunching and antibunching are also obtained.