Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 780 - 783 (1997)Quantized Phase Difference
Sixia Yu Received 17 March 1997 A quantum description for the phase difference between two harmonic oscillators is proposed. Being represented by a Hermitian operator, phase difference displays two striking quantum features. First, its eigenvalues form a new type of quantized value which is countable and dense in a 2π window. Second, because quantized phase difference cannot be defined as a difference of phases, it obeys a quantum addition rule which may not be commutative. ©1997 The American Physical Society
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