Optics and Spectroscopy
Charged particle coherent states in tomographic probability representation
Vladimir I. Man’ko, Elena D. Zhebrak
Abstract
The symplectic tomograms of coherent states of a charged particle moving in a constant uniform magnetic field are obtained in explicit form. The tomograms are shown to coincide with normal probability distributions of two random variables. The means and dispersions of the variables are found and expressed in terms of means and dispersions of the charged particle coordinates and momenta. The characteristic function of the tomographic probability distribution is found. The center of mass tomogram of the coherent state of charge in magnetic field is also found and the relation of the symplectic tomogram and the center of mass tomogram is established.