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Scheme for optimal spin state estimation is considered in analogy with phase detection in interferometry. Recently reported coherent measurements yielding the average fidelity (N+1)/(N+2) for N particle system corresponds to the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. Hradil , M. Dusek

Stochastic hybrid systems involve a coupling between a discrete Markov chain and a continuous stochastic process. If the latter evolves deterministically between jumps in the discrete state, then the system reduces to a piecewise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-26 Paul C. Bressloff

This paper examines the nature of classical correspondence in the case of coherent states at the level of quantum trajectories. We first show that for a harmonic oscillator, the coherent state complex quantum trajectories and the complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Moncy V. John , Kiran Mathew

The quantum metrological performance of spin coherent states superposition is considered, and conditions for measurements with the Heisenberg-limit (HL) precision are identified. It is demonstrated that the choice of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Yusef Maleki

We examine the circuit complexity of coherent states in a free scalar field theory, applying Nielsen's geometric approach as in [1]. The complexity of the coherent states have the same UV divergences as the vacuum state complexity and so we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-10 Minyong Guo , Juan Hernandez , Robert C. Myers , Shan-Ming Ruan

We outline the principal results of a recent examination of the quantization of systems with first- and second-class constraints from the point of view of coherent-state phase-space path integration. Two examples serve to illustrate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John R. Klauder

The Feynman Path Integral is extended in order to capture all solutions of a quantum field theory. This is done via a choice of appropriate integration cycles, parametrized by M in SL(2,C), i.e., the space of allowed integration cycles is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 D. D. Ferrante , G. S. Guralnik , Z. Guralnik , C. Pehlevan

Coherent state functional integrals for the minisuperspace models of quantum cosmology are studied. By the well-established canonical theories, the transition amplitudes in the path-integral representations of Wheeler-DeWitt quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Li Qin , Yongge Ma

The spin coherent state path integral describing the dynamics of a spin-1/2-system in a magnetic field of arbitrary time-dependence is considered. Defining the path integral as the limit of a Wiener regularized expression, the semiclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Adrian Alscher , Hermann Grabert

We construct coherent state of the effective mass harmonic oscillator and examine some of its properties. In particular closed form expressions of coherent states for different choices of the mass function are obtained and it is shown that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Atreyee Biswas , Barnana Roy

We present a possible construction of coherent states on the unit circle as configuration space. In our approach the phase space is the product Z x S^1. Because of the duality of canonical coordinates and momenta, i.e. the angular variable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 G. Chadzitaskos , P. Luft , J. Tolar

In these notes, we elucidate some subtle aspects of coherent-state path integrals, focusing on their application to the equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum many-particle systems. These subtleties emerge when evaluating path integrals in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-19 Luca Salasnich , Cesare Vianello

We provide a formula for computing the overlap between two Generalized Coherent States of any rank one simple Lie algebra. Then, we apply our formula to spin coherent states (i.e. $\mathfrak{su}(2)$ algebra), pseudo-spin coherent states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Nicola Pranzini

Coherent state path integrals are applied to a many-body problem for non-relativistic electrons in a central potential and an external magnetic field; however, in comparison to previous coherent state path integrals, we definitely fix the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-16 Bernhard Mieck

We analyze detailed properties of BPS coherent states and their connection to gravity. We interpret the group integral coherent state as a path integral over auxiliary variables coupled to the elementary letters of the theory. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-10 Hai Lin

We investigate the maximally coherent states to provide a refinement in quantifying coherence and give a measure-independent definition of the coherence-preserving operations. A maximally coherent state can be considered as the resource to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Yi Peng , Yong Jiang , Heng Fan

We derive semiclassical trace formulae including Gutzwiller's trace formula using coherent states. This formulation has several advantages over the usual coordinate-space formulation. Using a coherent-state basis makes it immediately…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 B. Mehlig , M. Wilkinson

In this letter, I develop a new topologically invariant coherent state path integral for spin systems, and apply it to the quantum Heisenberg model on a square lattice. As a result, the quantum nonlinear $\sigma$ model for arbitrary values…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei-Min Zhang

The path-integral quantization of thermal scalar, vector and spinor fields is performed newly in the coherent-state representation. In doing this, we choose the thermal electrodynamics and $\phi ^4$ theory as examples. By this quantization,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Jun-Chen Su , Fu-Hou Zheng

Inspired by a recent work that proposes using coherent states to evaluate the Feynman kernel in noncommutative space, we provide an independent formulation of the path-integral approach for quantum mechanics on the Moyal plane, with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 H. S. Tan