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Higher power squeezed states, Jacobi matrices, and the Hamburger moment problem

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

k:th power (amplitude-)squeezed states are defined as the normalized states giving equality in the Schroedinger-Robertson uncertainty relation for the real and imaginary parts of the k:th power of the one-mode annihilation operator. Equivalently they are the set of normalized eigenstates (for all possible complex eigenvalues) of the Bogolubov transformed "k:th power annihilation operators". Expressed in the number representation the eigenvalue equation leads to a three term recursion relation for the expansion coefficients, which can be explicitly solved in the cases k = 1, 2. The solutions are essentially Hermite and Pollaczek polynomials, respectively. k = 1 gives the ordinary squeezed states, i.e. displaced squeezed vacua. For k equal to or larger than three, where no explicit solution has been found, the recursion relation for the symmetric operator given by the real part of the k:th power of the annihilation operator defines a Jacobi matrix corresponding to a classical Hamburger moment problem, which is undetermined. This implies that the operator has an infinity of self-adjoint extensions, all with disjoint discrete spectra. The corresponding squeezed states are well-defined, however.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9711028,
  title  = {Higher power squeezed states, Jacobi matrices, and the Hamburger moment problem},
  author = {Bengt Nagel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9711028},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

8 p. LaTex. Corrections in eqns (5) and (7)

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