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We investigate the Wigner distributions for those states which lead to a minimum phase uncertainty for a fixed mean intensity. In contrast to the work of Bandilla, Paul, and Ritze (BPR), who use approximately a variance, we employ the Süssmann measure for minimizing the phase, leading to a phase distribution which is about twice as peaked than the BPR states. Our Wigner-functions show negative values for an appreciable mean intensity. These negative values occur when the curvature of the surface of constant energy in the classical phase space gets positive.
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Daeubler, B., Risken, H., Schoendorff, L. (1994). Wigner Distributions for Quantum States with Minimum Phase Uncertainty. In: Walls, D.F., Harvey, J.D. (eds) Quantum Optics VI. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 77. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79101-7_25
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