Abstract:A coherent state is defined conventionally in different ways such as a displaced vacuum state, an eigenket of an annihilation operator, or as an infinite dimensional Poissonian superposition of Fock states. In this work, we describe a superposition
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of field annihilation and creation operators acting on a continuous variable coherent state
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. We analyze the lower-… Show more
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