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Creation and annihilation operators and coherent states for the PT-symmetric oscillator

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We construct two commuting sets of creation and annihilation operators for the PT-symmetric oscillator. We then build coherent states of the latter as eigenstates of such annihilation operators by employing a modified version of the normalization integral that is relevant to PT-symmetric systems. We show that the coherent states are normalizable only in the range (0, 1) of the underlying coupling parameter α\alpha.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0110133,
  title  = {Creation and annihilation operators and coherent states for the PT-symmetric oscillator},
  author = {B. Bagchi and C. Quesne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0110133},
  year   = {2009}
}

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one additional reference, final version to be published in MPLA