Emergence of squeezed coherent states in Kaluza–Klein cosmology

Abstract

In this work, we consider a propagating scalar field on Kaluza–Klein-type cosmological background. It is shown that this geometrical description of the Universe resembles – from a Hamiltonian standpoint – a damped harmonic oscillator with mass and frequency, both time-dependents. In this scenario, we construct the squeezed coherent states (SCSs) for the quantized scalar field by employing the invariant operator method of Lewis–Riesenfeld (non-Hermitian) in a non-unitary approach. The non-classicality of SCSs has been discussed by examining the quadrature squeezing properties from the uncertainty principle. Moreover, we compute the probability density, which allows us to investigate whether SCSs can be used to seek traces of extra dimensions. We then analyze the effects of the existence of supplementary space on cosmological particle production in SCSs by considering different cosmological eras.