On relation between geometric momentum and annihilation operators on a two-dimensional sphere
Quantum Physics
2014-10-07 v1
Abstract
With a recently introduced geometric momentum that depends on the extrinsic curvature and offers a proper description of momentum on two-dimensional sphere, we show that the annihilation operators whose eigenstates are coherent states on the sphere take the expected form {\alpha}x+i{\beta}p, where {\alpha} and {\beta} are two operators that depend on the angular momentum and x and p are the position and the geometric momentum, respectively. Since the geometric momentum is manifestly a consequence of embedding the two-dimensional sphere in the three-dimensional flat space, the coherent states reflects some aspects beyond the intrinsic geometry of the surfaces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1212.4897,
title = {On relation between geometric momentum and annihilation operators on a two-dimensional sphere},
author = {Q. H. Liu and Y. Shen and D. M. Xun and X. Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.4897},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
5 pages, no figure