A New Form of Path Integral for the Coherent States Representation and its Semiclassical Limit
Abstract
The overcompleteness of the coherent states basis leads to a multiplicity of representations of Feynman's path integral. These different representations, although equivalent quantum mechanically, lead to different semiclassical limits. Two such semiclassical formulas were derived in \cite{Bar01} for the two corresponding path integral forms suggested by Klauder and Skagerstan in \cite{Klau85}. Each of these formulas involve trajectories governed by a different classical representation of the Hamiltonian operator: the P representation in one case and the Q representation in other. In this paper we construct a third representation of the path integral whose semiclassical limit involves directly the Weyl representation of the Hamiltonian operator, i.e., the classical Hamiltonian itself.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0412080,
title = {A New Form of Path Integral for the Coherent States Representation and its Semiclassical Limit},
author = {Luis C. dos Santos and M. A. M. de Aguiar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0412080},
year = {2007}
}
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