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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: Wavelets 22: more on coherent and squeezed states
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:15:53 GMT
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- 22. Consider the 3D Weyl-Heisenberg group space W1 for the 1D harmonic
- oscillator. The Lie algebra w1 has basis {-iX, -iP, -iI}. The canonical
- Glauber coherent states of the linear oscillator are eigenvectors |z> of
- the non-Hermitian (photon annihilation/creation) operator
-
- A = X + iP (206)
-
- The Lie algebra w1 is real and must be complexified with a tensor product
- of it with the complex plane C.
-
- w*1 = w1xC = w1 + iw1 (207)
-
- Relation of coherent states to the windowed Fourier transforms:
-
- Recall
-
- h(p,x) = e^ipX e^-ixP h (208)
-
- where h is the window function.
-
- In general if commutator [B,C] commutes with both B and C, the Baker-
- Campbell-Hausdorff (BCH) formula (important in Feynman's QED) reduces to
-
- e^B e^C = e^[B,C]/2 e^(B+C) (209)
-
- [ipX,-ixP] = ipxI (210)
-
- h(p,x) = e^ipx/2 e^i(pX - xP) h (210)
-
- X = (A* + A)/2, -iP = (A* - A)/2 (211 a&b)
-
- z = x - ip (212)
-
- h(p,x) = e^ipx/2 e^{z*A* - zA}/2 h (213)
-
- Let B = z*A*/2, C = -zA/2
-
- BCH implies
-
- h(p,x) = e^(ipx/2 - |z|^2/4) e^z*A*/2 e^-zA/2 (214)
-
- Use the Gaussian basic window
-
- h(x') = Ne^-x'^2/2 (215a)
-
- N = (2pi)^-1/4 (215b)
-
- h(x') = |0> (215c)
-
- in which z = 0. The basic Gaussian window corresponds to the coherent
- quantum state centered at the origin of the classical phase space of the
- radiation oscillator.
-
- Ah = 0 (216a)
-
- e^-zA/2 h = h (217b)
-
- h(p,x) = e^(ipx/2 - |z|^2/4) e^z*A*/2 h (218)
-
- |z> = e^z*A*/2 |0> (219)
-
- because A|0> = 0 and [A,A*] = 2I
-
- A|z> = z|z> (220)
-
- The coherent state |z> is a shifted Gaussian centered at z = x + ip in
- classical phase space plane - its domain of effective area h (for
- significant probability like electron clouds in chemistry) is radially
- symmetric (circle) about the point z. The domain of a squeezed state is not
- radially symmetric.
-
- The relation of the window translate in phase space to the coherent state
- is
-
- h(p,x) => e^(ipx/2 - |z|^2/4) |z> (221)
-
- |h(p,x)><h(p,x)| = e^-|z|^2/4 |z><z| (222)
-
- Note that the window translate h(p,x) is a unitary shift of basic window h,
- but the operator e^z*A*/2 which shifts |0> to |z> is not unitary.
-
- to be continued
-
-