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International Journal of Modern Physics A

PROPERTIES OF SO(2, 1) COHERENT STATE FOR THE COULOMB PROBLEM

BO-WEI XU, FEI YE

Published Jan 30, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

The physical properties of the SO(2, 1) coherent state for the Coulomb problem are discussed in this paper. We find that the coherent state, for which the minimum uncertainty relation holds, has a nonvanishing geometric phase factor, and also is approximately nonspreading in the classical limit of the high excitation of angular momentum.
DOI
10.1142/s0217751x04017732

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