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Expanding Hermitean Operators in a Basis of Projectors on Coherent Spin States

Quantum Physics 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

The expectation values of a hermitean operator A in (2s+1)(2s+1) specific coherent states of a spin are known to determine the operator unambiguously. As shown here, (almost) any other (2s+1)(2s+1) coherent states also provide a basis for self-adjoint operators. This is proven by considering the determinant of the Gram matrix associated with the coherent state projectors as a Hamiltonian of a fictitious classical spin system.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9907101,
  title  = {Expanding Hermitean Operators in a Basis of Projectors on Coherent Spin States},
  author = {Stefan Weigert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9907101},
  year   = {2015}
}

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