Nonclassical properties of coherent state orthogonalization via Hermite polynomial excited operation

Abstract

In this work, we theoretically construct an orthogonal state of a coherent state where the orthogonalizer is based on the Hermite polynomial excited operation with Hm(x) being a Hermite polynomial of order m and creation operator , called the Hermite-excite-orthogonalized coherent state (HEOCS). Then, in comparison with the Hermite polynomial excited coherent state (HPECS), we numerically investigate their different nonclassical properties by examining several measurable features, such as photon number distribution, sub-Poisson statistics, the antibunching effect, the quadrature squeezing effect, and the negative Wigner function. The results demonstrate that both HEOCS and HPECS are non-Gaussian quantum states with highly nonclassical characteristics by improving and modulating the order of the Hermite polynomial and coherent amplitude, which indicates that performing the Hermite-excited operation on given Gaussian states is an effective approach to generating non-Gaussian states.