Generating Function for a Linear Harmonic Oscillator

Francisco Marcelo Fernández

Mrityunjay Kumar, Rahul K. Singh

A. M. Perelomov, В. С. Попов

Francisco Marcelo Fernández, Richard H. Tipping

Multidimensional harmonic oscillator matrix elements of arbitrary products of exponentials for operators containing only linear and quadratic terms in the creation and annihilation operators are obtained. A simple and straightforward method is presented that leads to recurrence relations and generating functions for such matrix elements. Results are shown to be general enough to cover the cases of Franck–Condon overlaps, transition probabilities for time-dependent harmonic oscillators, and correlation functions for electronic spectra.

Sh. M. Nagiyev, R. M. Mir‐Kasimov

We discuss an exactly solvable relativistic model of a nonrelativistic linear harmonic oscillator in the presence of a constant external force. We show that as in the nonrelativistic case, the relativistic linear oscillator in an external uniform field is unitarily equivalent to the oscillator without this field. Using two methods, we calculate transition amplitudes between energy states of the discrete spectrum of the relativistic linear oscillator under the action of a suddenly applied uniform field. We find Barut–Girardello coherent states and the Green’s function in the coordinate and momentum representations. We obtain the linear and bilinear generating functions for the Meixner–Pollaczek polynomials. We prove that the relativistic wave functions, the generators of the dynamical symmetry group, and the transition amplitudes have the correct nonrelativistic limit.

V. S. Popov, M. A. Trusov