Normalization of photon-added and photon-subtracted states
ID: normalization-of-photon-added-and-photon-subtracted-states
Normalization of photon-added and photon-subtracted states by
Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Raw vectors and have squared norms and . Matrix elements of the number operator in these vectors must be divided by their squared norms before calling them means. For an optical squeezed vacuum with mean , the raw moments are and , while both normalized means equal when subtraction is possible.
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