Generation of squeezing for a charged oscillator and for a charged particle in a time-dependent electromagnetic field

Abstract

Recent papers [A. Bechler, Phys. Lett. A 130, 481 (1988); M. S. Abdalla, Phys. Rev. A 44, 2040 (1991)] investigate the generation of squeezing for a charged oscillator in a constant and uniform magnetic field. Here we pursue further this line by investigating the extended system of a charged particle oscillating in a uniform and arbitrary time-dependent magnetic field. Since we do not particularize the functional time dependence, our expressions for the variances of quadratures are quite general, so the possible occurrence and amount of squeezing will depend on that specification. The corresponding results mentioned above become a particularization of ours.