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Coherent-Squeezed State Representation of Travelling General Gaussian Wave Packets

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Using the time-dependent annihilation and creation operators, the invariant operators, for a free mass and an oscillator, we find the coherent-squeezed state representation of a travelling general Gaussian wave packet with initial expectation values, x0x_0 and p0p_0, of the position and momentum and variances, Δx0\Delta x_0 and Δp0\Delta p_0. The initial general Gaussian wave packet takes, up to a normalization factor, the form eip0x/e(1iδ)(xx0)2/4(Δx0)2e^{i p_0 x/\hbar} e^{- (1 \mp i \delta) (x - x_0)^2 / 4 (\Delta x_0)^2}, where δ=(2Δx0Δp0/)21\delta = \sqrt{(2\Delta x_0 \Delta p_0/\hbar)^2 -1} denotes a measure of deviation from the minimum uncertainty or the initial position-momentum correlation δ=2Δ(xp)0/\delta = 2\Delta (xp)_0 / \hbar. The travelling Gaussian wave packet takes, up to a time-dependent phase and normalization factor, the form eipcx/e(12iΔ(xp)t/)(xxc)2/4(Δxt)2e^{i p_c x/\hbar} e^{- (1 - 2 i \Delta (xp)_t/\hbar) (x - x_c)^2 / 4 (\Delta x_t)^2} and the centroid follows the the classical trajectory with xc(t)x_c(t) and pc(t)p_c(t). The position variance is found to have additionally a linearly time-dependent term proportional to δ\delta with both positive and negative signs.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0511073,
  title  = {Coherent-Squeezed State Representation of Travelling General Gaussian Wave Packets},
  author = {Sang Pyo Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0511073},
  year   = {2007}
}

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