Generalized coherent states forSU(n) systems
- 3 May 2000
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 33 (17) , 3493-3506
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/33/17/307
Abstract
Generalized coherent states are developed for SU(n) systems for arbitrary n. This is done by first iteratively determining explicit representations for the SU(n) coherent states and then determining parametric representations useful for applications. For SU(n), the set of coherent states is isomorphic to a coset space SU(n)/SU(n-1), and thus shows the geometrical structure of the coset space. These results provide a convenient (2n-1)-dimensional space for the description of arbitrary SU(n) systems. We further obtain the metric and measure on the coset space and show some properties of the SU(n) coherent states.Keywords
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