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Phys. Rev. A 68, 033821 (2003) [8 pages]

Relations between bosonic quadrature squeezing and atomic spin squeezing

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Xiaoguang Wang1,2 and Barry C. Sanders1,3
1Department of Physics and Australian Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
2Department of Physics and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
3Quantum Information Science Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4

Received 12 May 2003; published 29 September 2003

We study relations between bosonic quadrature squeezing and atomic spin squeezing, and find that the latter reduces to the former in the limit of a large number of atoms for even and odd states. We demonstrate this reduction by treating even and odd spin coherent states, for which analytical solutions are readily obtained, and prove that even spin coherent states always exhibit spin squeezing, whereas odd spin coherent states do not, analogous to the squeezing characteristic of even and odd bosonic coherent states. Finally, we examine the squeezing transfer between photons and atoms via the Dicke Hamiltonian, where a perfect transfer of squeezing is demonstrated in the limit of a large number of atoms.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.68.033821
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.68.033821
PACS:
42.50.Dv, 42.50.Ct, 32.80.-t