Abstract
It is shown that if one has access to only one mode of a two-mode squeezed-vacuum state, the photon statistics of this mode is indistinguishable from that of a thermal distribution. Parametric interactions that give rise to two-mode squeezing thus provide a mechanism for thermalization that is intrinsically quantum mechanical.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3464-3466 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Physical Review A |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1987 |
| Externally published | Yes |