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Physical Review A

Coherent states for the Morse oscillator

Sabre Kais, Raphael David Levine

Published Mar 1, 1990• 69 citations
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Abstract

The explicit coordinate representation of coherent states for the Morse oscillator is derived and discussed, in the limit that the potential well is deep. Without this limit, such states can only be written as a finite sum that does evolve coherently but in a dilated time.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.41.2301

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