ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION 243
2Henceforth the binomial states will be denoted as |p, M;6n — 0) = |p, M).
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B\p,M) = ^pM\p,M), (12)
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This means that binomial states are basically sub-Poissonian, for any value of p, and independently of M, except in the coherent state limit (also including the vacuum state). The extreme case of sub-Poissonian field is the Fock state one, which has Q = — 1.
