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      Coherent states for ladder operators of general order related to exceptional orthogonal polynomials

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          We construct the coherent states of general order, \(m\) for the ladder operators, \(c(m)\) and \(c^\dagger(m)\), which act on rational deformations of the harmonic oscillator. The position wavefunctions of the eigenvectors involve type III Hermite exceptional orthogonal polynomials. We plot energy expectations, time-dependent position probability densities for the coherent states and for the even and odd cat states, Wigner functions, and Heisenberg uncertainty relations. We find generally non-classical behaviour, with one exception: there is a regime of large magnitude of the coherent state parameter, \(z\), where the otherwise indistinct position probability density separates into \(m+1\) distinct wavepackets oscillating and colliding in the potential, forming interference fringes when they collide. The Mandel \(Q\) parameter is calculated to find sub-Poissonian statistics, another indicator of non-classical behaviour. We plot the position standard deviation and find squeezing in many of the cases. We calculate the two-photon-number probability density for the output state when the \(m=4\), \(\mu=-5\) coherent states (where \(\mu\) labels the lowest weight in the superposition) are placed on one arm of a beamsplitter. We find that it does not factorize, again indicating non-classical behaviour. Calculation of the linear entropy for this beamsplitter output state shows significant entanglement, another non-classical feature. We also construct linearized versions, \(\tilde c(m)\), of the annihilation operators and their coherent states and calculate the same properties that we investigate for the coherent states. For these we find similar behaviour to the \(c(m)\) coherent states, at much smaller magnitudes of \(z\), but comparable average energies.

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              A beam splitter is a simple, readily available device which can act to entangle the output optical fields. We show that a necessary condition for the fields at the output of the beam splitter to be entangled is that the pure input states exhibit nonclassical behavior. We generalize this proof for arbitrary (pure or impure) Gaussian input states. Specifically, nonclassicality of the input Gaussian fields is a necessary condition for entanglement of the field modes with the help of the beam splitter. We conjecture that this is a general property of the beam splitter: Nonclassicality of the inputs is a necessary condition for entangling fields in the beam splitter.
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                04 March 2018
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                1803.01318
                1e190644-bb8a-480d-bf60-e0b8b22ad16d

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                16 pages, 12 figures
                math-ph math.MP

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