Density Matrix and Squeezed State of the Two Coupled Harmonic Oscillators
Fan Hong‐Yi · Europhysics Letters (EPL) · 1992
We derive the density matrix ρ(x1, x2; x1', x2', β) for two coupled harmonic oscillators by taking a unitary transformation approach. The corresponding unitary operator U is characteristic of including frequency-jump squeezing transformation. By virtue of the technique of integration within ordered product and the coordinate representation of U we manifestly show that the ground state of the coupled oscillators is a squeezed state. Based on the derived ρ(x1, x2; x1', x2', β) we calculate the average coupling energy.