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Normal ordering the squeeze operator by generalized Wick theorem

Quantum Physics 2018-12-31 v1

Abstract

In 1988, I translated a popular article 'Squeezed light' for the Hungarian mutation of Scientific American. How shall we say 'squeezed' in our language from now on? At the time, Janszky was already Hungary's top quantum optics theorist, he excelled in squeezed light research as well, so I did not want to decide without asking him. He voted for the word 'pr\'eselt' [prayshalt], and it worked,became standard in our talking and writing about squeezed light. To his memory, let me dedicate an easy route (two pages) to normal ordering the squeeze operator, based on my recent extension of the Wick theorem for general orderings of q and p.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1808.02765,
  title  = {Normal ordering the squeeze operator by generalized Wick theorem},
  author = {Lajos Diósi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.02765},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

4pp, submitted to JRLR special issue in memory of J\'ozsef Janszky and Stig Stenholm

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