Hillery-type squeezing in fan-states.pdf

a r X i v : q u a n t - p h / 0 4 0 3 2 0 1 v 1 2 9 M a r 2 0 0 4 Hillery-Type Squeezing in Fan-States Minh Duc Truong Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34100 Trieste, Italy Ba An Nguyen? School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, 207-43 Cheongryangni 2-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-722, Korea Abstract We study the Hillery-type, i.e. N -th power, amplitude squeezing in the fan-state |ξ; 2k, f〉F characterized by ξ ∈ C, k = 1, 2, 3, ... and f a nonlinear operator-valued function. We show that for a given k there exists a critical ξc such that for 0 |ξ| ≤ |ξc| squeezing occurs simultaneously in 2k directions for the powers N which are a multiple of 2k. This result does not depend on the concrete form of f , i.e. it holds true for both f ≡ 1 and f 6= 1. However, for f 6= 1, which is realized here in the ion trap context, the squeezing directions as well as the magnitude of ξ can be controlled by adjusting the system driving parameters. PACS numbers: 42.50.Dv Keywords: Fan-state, squeezing directions ?Electronic address: nbaan@kias.re.kr; Fax: +82-2-958-3786; Corresponding author 1 I. INTRODUCTION The squeezed state is a nonclassical state, which has been discovered for a long time (see, e.g., a recent review [1] and references therein). Besides recognized potential applications in detecting extremely weak forces, squeezed states have recently attracted much more at- tention in the newly emerging field of quantum information and quantum computation. By means of squeezed states schemes for teleportation of continuous quantum variables [2, 3, 4], quantum cryptography [5, 6], entanglement distribution [7], etc. have been proposed and some of them have been realized. The original squeezed state [8] has been generalized to different types of higher-order. One type of higher-order amplitude squeezing is suggested by Hong and Mandel [9]. Another qualitatively different type is introduced by Hillery [1