Quaternionic vector coherent states and the supersymmetric harmonic oscillator

The quaternionic vector coherent states are realized as coherent states of the supersymmetric harmonic oscillator with broken symmetry in analogy with the standard canonical coherent states of the ordinary harmonic oscillator. We study the nonclassical properties of the oscillator, such as the photon number distribution and signal-to-quantum-noise ratio in terms of these states and discuss the squeezing properties and the temporal stability of the coherent states. We obtain the orthogonal polynomials associated with the quaternionic vector coherent states.