Barut-Girardello coherent states for sp(N,C) and multimode Schrodinger cat states

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arXiv:quant-ph/9706028v1 13 Jun 1997e-printquant-ph/9706028PreprintINRNE-TH-97/5(12June1997)

Barut-Girardellocoherentstatesforsp(N,C)andmultimodeSchr¨odingercatstates

D.A.Trifonov+InstituteofNuclearResearch,72TzarigradskoChaussee,1784Sofia,Bulgaria

AbstractOvercompletefamiliesofstatesofthetypeofBarut-Girardellocoherentstates(BGCS)areconstructedfornoncompactalgebrasu(p,q)andsp(N,C)inquadraticbosonicrepresentation.Thesp(N,C)BGCSareobtainedintheformofmulti-modeordinarySchr¨odingercatstates.AsetofsuchmacroscopicsuperpositionsispointedoutwhichisovercompleteinthewholeNmodeHilbertspace(whiletheassociatedsp(N,C)representationisreducible).ThemultimodesquaredamplitudeSchr¨odingercatstatesareintroducedasmacroscopicsuperpositionsoftheobtainedsp(N,C)BGCS.

1IntroductionRecentlyaninterestisshownintheliterature[1,2,3,4,5,8]toapplicationsandgeneral-izationsoftheBarut-Girardellocoherentstates(BGCS)[9].TheBGCSwereconstructedaseigenstatesofloweringWeyloperatorofthealgebrasu(1,1).TheBGCSrepresenta-tionwasusedtoconstructexplicitlysqueezedstates(SS)forthegeneratorsofthegroupSU(1,1)whichminimizetheSchr¨odingeruncertaintyrelationfortwoobservables[1]andeigenstatesofgeneralelementofthecomplexifiedsu(1,1)[3,4].ThesealgebrarelatedCScanbeconsideredasstateswhichgeneralizetheeigenvaluepropertyofBGCStothecaseoflinearcombinationofloweringandraisingWeyloperatorsandevenofalltheSU(1,1)generators.PassingtootheralgebrasitisimportantfirsttoconstructtheeigenstatesofWeylloweringoperators,whichistheextensionoftheBGdefinitionofCStothedesiredalgebra.OuraiminthepresentworkistoconstructBGCSforthesymplecticalgebrasp(N,C)anditssubalgebrasu(p,q),p+q=N,inthequadraticbosonicrepresentation.HereNisthedimensionofCartansubalgebra,whilethedimensionofsp(N,C)isN(2N+1),N=1,2,...,[10].Weestablishthatthesp(N,C)BGCStaketheformofsuperpositionsofmultimodeGlauberCS[11]|󰀲α󰀎and|−󰀲α󰀎(Eq.(12)),i.e.theformofmultimodeordinarySchr¨odingercatstates.ThesetofthesemacroscopicsuperpositionsofGlauber(orcanonical[12])CSincludesseveralsubsetsofstatesextensivelystudiedinquantumoptics(seee.g.[13,14]).WealsointroducemultimodesquaredamplitudeSchr¨odingercatstatesassuperpositionsoftheconstructedsp(N,C)BGCS.IntherecentE-print[8]theBGCShavebeenconstructedfortheu(N−1,1)algebra.Hereweconstructovercompletefamiliesofstatesforu(p,q).

2TheBarut-GirardellocoherentstatesThepropertyoftheGlauberCS|α󰀎tobeeigenstatesofphotonnumberloweringoperatora,a|α󰀎=α|α󰀎(αiscomplexnumber,[a,a†]=1)wasextendedbyBarutandGirardello[9]tothecaseofWeylloweringoperatorK−ofsu(1,1)algebra.Herewebrieflyreviewsomeoftheirproperties.Thedefiningequationis

K−|z;k󰀎=z|z;k󰀎,(1)wherezis(complex)eigenvalueandkisBargmanindex.FordiscreteseriesD(∓)(k)ktakesthevalues±1/2,±1,....TheCartan-WeylbasisoperatorsK±=K1±iK2,K3ofsu(1,1)obeytherelations

[K3,K±]=±K±,[K−,K+]=2K3,(2)withtheCasimiroperatorC2=K32−(1/2)[K−K++K+K−]=k(k−1).Theexpansionofthesestatesovertheorthonormalbasisofeigenstates|k+n,k󰀎ofK3(K3|n+k,k󰀎=(n+k)|n+k,k󰀎,n=0,1,2,...)is

|z;k󰀎=zk−1/2I2k−1(2|z|)∞󰀇n=0znn!Γ(2k+n)|n+k,k󰀎,(3)whereIν(z)isthefirstkindmodifiedBesselfunction,andΓ(z)isgammafunction.TheaboveBGstatesarenormalizedtounity.Theirscalarproductis

󰀐k;z1|z2;k󰀎=I2k−1(2󰀊I2k−1(2|z1|)I2k−1(2|z2|)󰀄−1

andtheyresolvetheidentityoperator,󰀉dµ(z,k)|z;k󰀎󰀐k;z|=I,dµ(z,k)=2

I2k−1(2|z|)/(zk−1/2)󰀐k,z∗|ψ󰀎,whichisofthegrowth(1,1).TheoperatorsK±andK3actintheHilbertspaceofanalyticfunctionsfψ(z)aslineardifferentialoperators

2K+=z,K−=2kddz2,K3=k+zd2(a†iaj+aja†i),(8)whereai,a†iareNpairsofbosonannihilationandcreationoperators.TheseoperatorsactirreduciblyinthesubspacesH±spannedbythenumberstates|n1,...,nN󰀎witheven/oddntot≡n1+n2+...+nN.ThewholeHilbertspaceHoftheNmodesystemisadirectsumofH±.Thesp(N,C)isthecomplexificationofsp(N,R)andthereforthehermitianquadra-turesoftheaboveoperatorsspanoverRthesp(N,R)algebra.InthiswayforN=1onegetsfrom(8)sp(1,R)∼su(1,1),

K1=14(a2−a†2),K3=1OnegeneralpropertyofCS|{zkl}󰀎fortherepresentation(8)isthattheydependeffectivelyonNcomplexparametersαj(notofN2+Nasonemightexpect).Indeed,usingthebosoncommutationrelations[ai,aj]=0andthedefinition(7)weeasilyget

zijzkl=zikzjl=zilzjk,(10)wherefromwegetthefactorizationzij=αiαj.Thereforintheabovebosonicrepresenta-tionthedefinition(7)isrewrittenas

aiaj|{αkαl}󰀎=αiαj|{αkαl}󰀎,i,j=1,2,...,N.(11)ThegeneralsolutiontothissystemofequationsismosteasilyobtainedintheGlauberCSrepresentation.Itreads

|{αkαl}󰀎=C+(󰀲α)|󰀲α󰀎+C−(󰀲α)|−󰀲α󰀎≡|󰀲α;C+,C−󰀎,(12)where|󰀲α󰀎aremultimodeGlauberCS,󰀲α=(α1,α2,...,αN)andC±(󰀲α)arearbitraryfunctions,subjectedtothenormalizationcondition(|󰀲α|2=󰀲α·󰀲α=|α1|2+...+|αN|2)