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Bengt Nagel

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

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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Spectra and generalized eigenfunctions of the one- and two-mode squeezing operators in quantum optics

The spectra and generalized eigenfunctions of the hyperbolic and parabolic generators of the standard representation of SU(1,1) in the one-mode boson Hilbert space are derived. The eigenfunctions are given in three different forms, corresponding to the coordinate, photon number, and Fock-Bargmann representations of the state vectors. The possible spectra of general second degree Hamiltonians are determined. Some corresponding results in the two-mode case are also given. - In the Appendix we prove completeness and orthonormality relations for the polynomials giving the number representation expansion coefficients of the generalized eigenfunctions of the hyperbolic generator (= squeezing generator). These polynomials are special cases of Pollaczek polynomials.

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