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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: Wavelets, coherent states 2
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:32:21 GMT
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- 2. Canonical coherent states |z> of 1-dim quantum harmonic oscillator.
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- I follow the book by G Kaiser. (h/2pi =1)
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- a = [x +(1/mw)d/dx] (1)
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- [A,A*] = 2 (2)
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- H = (1/2m)[p^2 + m^2w^2x^2] = (1/2)mw^2a*a + w/2 (3)
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- a|z> = z|z> (4)
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- <x'|z> = (pi)^-1/4 e^[-z^2/4 + zx' - x'^2/2] (5)
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- These canonical coherent states "have the remarkable property that if the
- intial state is |z(0)>, then the state at time t is |z(t)> where z(t) is
- the orbit in phase space of the corresponding classical harmonic oscillator
- with initial data given by z(o). These states were discovered by
- Schrodinger in 1926 ... investigated by Fock in 1928 for quantum field
- theory and by von Neumann in 1931 for quantum measurement theory."
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- They span the Hilbert space but do not form a basis because they are
- linearly dependent and it is hard to find complete linearly independent
- subsets.
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- The canonical coherent states do not a basis make but they do provide a
- "generalized frame" that generate a representation of the Hilbert space by
- a space of analytic functions. This frame feature was discovered
- independently by Klauder, Bargmann and Segal. Glauber used them to extend
- classical optical coherence to quantum electrodynamics in the early 1960's
- when I first encountered them.
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- to be continued
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