Alternative derivation of the Pegg-Barnett phase operator
- 1 February 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 47 (2) , 1492-1496
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.47.1492
Abstract
An alternative derivation of the Pegg-Barnett phase operator is presented. This approach is based on the properties of the representation in quantum mechanics of a nonlinear nonbijective canonical transformation. It does not use as its starting point either a finite-dimensional space or the definition of phase states. The features of this formalism are analyzed in terms of this transformation.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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