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Even coherent-state superposition

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The normalized sum N+​(∣α⟩+∣−α⟩) contains only even photon numbers, since the two coherent-state expansions cancel every odd term. It tends to vacuum at small amplitude. With real α, its second quadrature can be squeezed below the vacuum variance.

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