Coherent states sometimes look like squeezed states, and visa versa: The Paul trap

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Using the Paul Trap as a model, we point out that the same wave functions can be variously coherent or squeezed states, depending upon the system they are applied to.
LaTeX, 12 pages. To be published in the New Journal of Physics focus issue on Microlasers and Cavity QED. Revised version significantly expanded for publication. (In honor of the late Dan Walls.)

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