Coherent States for General Potentials

Mar, 1978
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 41 (1978) 207
Report number:
  • LA-UR-78-418

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Abstract: (APS)
We define coherent states for general potentials, requiring that they have the physically interesting properties of the harmonic-oscillator coherent states. We exhibit these states for several solvable examples and show that they obey a quantum approximation to the classical motion.
  • QUANTUM MECHANICS: COHERENT STATE
  • POTENTIAL: GENERAL
  • MODEL: OSCILLATOR
  • MECHANICS: CLASSICAL
  • QUANTUM MECHANICS: COMMUTATION RELATIONS