Single-mode nonclassicality criteria via Holstein–Primakoff transformation

Abstract

We study different representations of a many-particle system. We reveal the connections among the nonclassicalities of many-particle, single-mode and two-mode systems in the infinite particle number limit. First, we demonstrate that (separable) atomic coherent states, of a many-particle system, mimic the coherent states of single-mode light as the number of particles goes to infinity. This enables the utilization of a many-particle entanglement (MPE) criterion as a single-mode nonclassicality (SMNc) condition via Holstein–Primakoff transformation in this limit. As an example, we show that spin-squeezing criterion, for MPE, can be transformed into quadrature-squeezing, a nonclassicality condition for a single-mode system. Second, we demonstrate a similar connection between the two-mode separable states and separable atomic coherent states of a many-particle system for the infinite particle number limit. The second connection makes us be able to obtain an SMNc condition from a two-mode entanglement (TME) criterion, using the many-particle system as a bridge. As an example, we obtain Mandel’s Q-parameter from the TME criterion of Hillery and Zubairy.