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arXiv:quant-ph/0105070 · Physical Review A

Quadrature-dependent Bogoliubov transformations and multiphoton squeezed states

Silvio De Siena, Antonio Di Lisi, Fabrizio Illuminati

Published Nov 9, 2001• 21 citations
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Abstract

We introduce a linear, canonical transformation of the fundamental single-mode field operators a and ${a}^{\ifmmode\dagger\else\textdagger\fi{}}$ that generalizes the linear Bogoliubov transformation familiar in the construction of the harmonic oscillator squeezed states. This generalization is obtained by adding a nonlinear function of any of the fundamental quadrature operators ${X}_{1}$ and ${X}_{2}$ to the linear transformation, thus making the original Bogoliubov transformation quadrature dependent. Remarkably, the conditions of canonicity do not impose any constraint on the form of the nonlinear function, and lead to a set of nontrivial algebraic relations between the c-number coefficients of the transformation. We examine in detail the structure and the properties of the quantum states defined as eigenvectors of the transformed annihilation operator b. These eigenvectors define a class of multiphoton squeezed states. The structure of the uncertainty products and of the quasiprobability distributions in phase space shows that besides coherence properties, these states exhibit a squeezing and a deformation (cooling) of the phase-space trajectories, both of which strongly depend on the form of the nonlinear function. The presence of the extra nonlinear term in the phase of the wave functions has also relevant consequences on photon statistics and correlation properties. The nonquadratic structure of the associated Hamiltonians suggests that these states be generated in connection with multiphoton processes in media with higher nonlinearities. We give a detailed description of the quadratic nonlinear transformation, which defines four-photon squeezed states. In particular, the behaviors of the second-order correlation function ${g}^{(2)}(0)$ and of the fourth-order correlation function ${g}^{(4)}(0)$ are studied. The former exhibits super-Poissonian statistics, while the latter indicates photon bunching in the four-photon emissions.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.64.063803

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We introduce nonlinear canonical transformations that yield effective, solvable Hamiltonians of multiphoton down-conversion processes, and we define the associated non-Gaussian multiphoton squeezed states as the coherent states of the multiphoton Hamiltonians. We study in detail the four-photon processes and the associated non-Gaussian four-photon squeezed states. The realization of squeezing, the behaviour of the field statistics, and the structure of the phase space distributions show that these states realize a natural four-photon generalization of the two-photon squeezed states.
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We show that the nonlinear quadrature-dependent Bogoliubov transformations proposed by Siena et al. [Phys. Rev. A 64, 063803 (2001)] can in fact be constructed by the combination of two unitary transformations, a quadrature-dependent displacement followed by the standard squeezed transformation. Such a decomposition turns a nonlinear problem into an essentially linear one so that we are able to express explicitly the mean values and deviations of the quadrature operators and the photon variables under the multiphoton states in terms of those quantities averaged over the standard squeezed states involving only the quadrature-independent Bogoliubov transformation.