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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.

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@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}
}

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5 pages, no figure

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