Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General
Generalised coherent states and Bogoliubov transformations
R. F. Bishop, Apostol Vourdas
Abstract
The authors study the properties of the states U 2 ( rho , theta , lambda ) mod A) where U 2 is an operator associated with the group SU(1,1), and mod A) is a standard (atomic or Glauber) coherent state defined in terms of the usual boson creation and destruction operators a Dagger and a. They show how these states may be viewed as ordinary coherent states in terms of the Bogoliubov quasiparticles whose creation and destruction operators b Dagger and b are associated with the operators a Dagger and a by a Bogoliubov transformation. As an important example of the use of these states, they show that they are the coherent states associated with a uniformly accelerated (Rindler) observer moving through Minkowski space. The previous results then simply show how the Minkowski (inertial) vacuum appears to the Rindler observer as a black-body radiator with a Planckian distribution corresponding to a temperature proportional to the proper acceleration.