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Holstein-Primakoff/Bogoliubov Transformations and the Multiboson System

Quantum Physics 2015-06-26 v2

Abstract

As an aid to understanding the {\it displacement operator} definition of squeezed states for arbitrary systems, we investigate the properties of systems where there is a Holstein-Primakoff or Bogoliubov transformation. In these cases the {\it ladder-operator or minimum-uncertainty} definitions of squeezed states are equivalent to an extent displacement-operator definition. We exemplify this in a setting where there are operators satisfying [A,A]=1[A, A^{\dagger}] = 1, but the AA's are not necessarily the Fock space aa's; the multiboson system. It has been previously observed that the ground state of a system often can be shown to to be a coherent state. We demonstrate why this must be so. We close with a discussion of an alternative, effective definition of displacement-operator squeezed states.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9506025,
  title  = {Holstein-Primakoff/Bogoliubov Transformations and the Multiboson System},
  author = {Michael Martin Nieto and D. Rodney Truax},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9506025},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Two sections added and new title. LaTeX, 18 pages. Accepted by Forschritte der Physik