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.
- Received 30 March 1987
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.36.3464
©1987 American Physical Society
