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Physical Review A

Mapping of operator equations into C -number differential form and the atomic coherent-state representation

Luigi Lugiato, Lorenzo M. Narducci, M. Gronchi

Published Mar 1, 1977• 4 citations
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Abstract

The mapping of operator equations into $C$-number differential form by means of the atomic coherent-state representation leads to mathematical difficulties that have no counterpart in the case of the Glauber-Sudarshan representation for Bose systems. We give sufficient conditions for the solutions of $C$-number equations in the atomic coherent-state representation to be physically meaningful.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.15.1126

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