Generalized coherent states and the uncertainty principle
- 15 June 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 25 (12) , 3413-3416
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.25.3413
Abstract
We derive from a dynamical symmetry property that the linear and nonlinear Schrödinger equations with harmonic potential possess an infinite string of shape-preserving coherent wave-packet states with classical motion. Unlike the Schrödinger state with , the uncertainty product can be arbitrarily large for these states showing that classical motion is not necessarily linked with minimum uncertainty. We obtain a generalization of Sudarshan's diagonal coherent-state representation in terms of these states.
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