Abstract

Since squeezed states have a very simple representation in coordinate space, one is led to calculate their phase distribution via forming the scalar product with the phase eigenstates represented in coordinate space <x | φ>, where $\text{x}=2^{-\frac{1}{2}}$(a + a⁺) (a, a⁺ photon annihilation and creation operator, respectively). However, in the now widely accepted Pegg-Barnett formal ism^[1] <x | φ> is a rather complicated function that actually can be dealt with only numerically.

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