Deformed Oscillator , Isospectral Oscillator System and Hermitian Phase Operator

The generally deformed oscillator (GDO) and its multiphoton realization as well as the coherent and squeezed vacuum states are studied. We discuss, in particular, the GDO depending on a complex parameter q (therefore we call it q-GDO) together with the finite dimensional cyclic representations. As a realistic physical system of GDO the isospectral oscillator system is studied and it is found that its coherent and squeezed vacuum states are closely related to those of the oscillator. It is pointed out that starting from the q-GDO with q root of unity one can define the hermitian phase operators in quantum optics consistently and algebraically. The new creation and annihilation operators of the Pegg-Barnett type phase operator theory are defined by using the cyclic representations and these operators degenerate to those of the ordinary oscillator in the classical limit q → 1. PACS numbers: 03.65.-w, 02.20.-a, 42.50.-p Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 29 (1996) 4049 JSPS Fellow. On leave of absence from Institute of Theoretical Physics, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, P.R.China. E-mail: [email protected] Supported partially by the grant-in-aid for Scientific Research, Priority Area 231 “Infinite Analysis” and General Research (C) in Physics, Japan Ministry of Education.