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The mathematical description of the quantum harmonic oscillator is essentially based on the Gaussian function. In the case of a quantum oscillator with finite-dimensional Hilbert space, the position space consists in a finite number of…

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In a quantum system with d-dimensional Hilbert space, the Q-function of a Hermitian positive semidefinite operator ?, is defined in terms of the d2 coherent states in this system. The Choquet integral CQ of the Q-function, is introduced…

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We study the quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator in two and three dimensions, with particular attention to the solutions as represents of their respective symmetry groups: O(2), O(3), and O(2,1). Solving the Schrodinger equation by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-27 Martin Land

In a special representation of complex action theory that we call ``future-included'', we study a harmonic oscillator model defined with a non-normal Hamiltonian $\hat{H}$, in which a mass $m$ and an angular frequency $\omega$ are taken to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Keiichi Nagao , Holger Bech Nielsen

We present, for the isospectral family of oscillator Hamiltonians, a systematic procedure for constructing raising and lowering operators satisfying any prescribed `distorted' Heisenberg algebra (including the $q$-generalization). This is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Seshadri , V. Balakrishnan , S. Lakshmibala

State representations summarize our knowledge about a system. When unobservable quantities are introduced the state representation is typically no longer unique. However, this non-uniqueness does not affect subsequent inferences based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kae Nemoto , Samuel L. Braunstein

The q-deformed harmonic oscillator is studied in the light of q-deformed phase space variables. This allows a formulation of the corresponding Hamiltonian in terms of the ordinary canonical variables $x$ and $p$. The spectrum shows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 A. Lorek , A. Ruffing , J. Wess

p-Mechanics is a consistent physical theory which describes both quantum and classical mechanics simultaneously. We continue the development of p-mechanics by introducing the concept of states. The set of coherent states we introduce allow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alastair Brodlie

Full coherent control and generation of superpositions of the quantum harmonic oscillator are not only of fundamental interest but are crucial for applications in quantum simulations, quantum-enhanced metrology and continuous-variable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 S. Saner , O. Băzăvan , D. J. Webb , G. Araneda , D. M. Lucas , C. J. Ballance , R. Srinivas

Within the generalized definition of coherent states as group orbits we study the orbit spaces and the orbit manifolds in the projective spaces constructed from linear representations. Invariant functions are suggested for arbitrary groups.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Nuno Barros e Sa

For a time-dependent harmonic oscillator with an inverse squared singular term, we find the generalized invariant using the Lie algebra of $SU(2)$ and construct the number-type eigenstates and the coherent states using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jung Kon Kim , Sang Pyo Kim

Constructing a classical mechanical system associated with a given quantum mechanical one, entails construction of a classical phase space and a corresponding Hamiltonian function from the available quantum structures and a notion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ghanashyam Date

Considering some important classes of generalized coherent states known in literature, we demonstrated that all of them can be created via conventional fashion, i.e. the "lowering operator eigen-state" and the "displacement operator"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Roknizadeh , M. K. Tavassoly

Arbitrarily small changes in the commutation relations suffice to transform the usual singular quantum theories into regular quantum theories. This process is an extension of canonical quantization that we call general quantization. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mohsen Shiri-Garakani , David Ritz Finkelstein

Through a set of generators that preserves the hermiticity and trace of density matrices, we analyze the damping of harmonic oscillator in open quantum systems into four modes, distinguished by their specific effects on the covariance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 B. A. Tay

Starting from a faithful five-dimensional matrix representation of the group of two independent oscillators and applying the R-matrix method we generate some classes of deformed fermionic-bosonic quantum Hopf algebras. The corresponding Lie…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nibaldo Alvarez-Moraga

The paper introduces a simple quantum model to calculate in a general way allowed frequencies and energy levels of the anharmonic oscillator. The theoretical basis of the approach has been introduced in two early papers aimed to infer the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-19 Sebastiano Tosto

This is a pedagogical paper where we present a physically motivated approach to introduce the coherent states of a harmonic oscillator from which it is simple to rigorously derive their mathematical definition. We do this in two different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Juan Pablo Paz , Augusto J. Roncaglia

We consider a quantum system consisting of a one-dimensional chain of M identical harmonic oscillators with natural frequency $\omega$, coupled by means of springs. Such systems have been studied before, and appear in various models. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Lievens , N. I. Stoilova , J. Van der Jeugt

A general algebraic procedure for constructing coherent states of a wide class of exactly solvable potentials e.g., Morse and P{\"o}schl-Teller, is given. The method, {\it a priori}, is potential independent and connects with earlier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Shreecharan , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , J. Banerji