Abstract

This paper has been motivated by our previous paper (Eur. Phys J Plus 135:253, 2020) on q-coherent states of the Arik–Coon q-oscillator. The quadratic powers of unbounded and bounded annihilation operators associated with the Arik–Coon q-oscillator are used to obtain two different families of the even and odd q-cat states for $$0<q<1$$ in even and odd subspaces of the Fock representation space of the system. The resolutions of the identity condition for q-cat states of the unbounded and bounded annihilation operators are realized by two appropriate positive definite q-measures in the q-integral on the whole complex plane and a disk in radius $$1/\sqrt{1-q}$$ , respectively. It is shown that the antibunching effect and sub-Poissonian statistics as well as the bunching effect and super-Poissonian statistics are simultaneously exhibited by the first and second families of q-cat states, respectively. Otherwise, a fixed observation cannot be concluded. The strong and weak squeezing conditions for two different types of q-generalizations of the position and momentum quadratures, corresponding to the unbounded and bounded annihilation operators, on their associated even and odd q-cat states are considered. Using an example, we show that contrary to the odd q-cat states of the first family that exhibit both strong and weak squeezing effects by both quadratures, the ones of the second family demonstrate only the weak squeezing.

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