We define the magnetic-electric two-dimensional Euclidean group coherent states, and discuss their properties for various applications. We compare them with other commonly used basis states, coherent or noncoherent, for the problem of the electron in crossed magnetic and electric fields.
The n-dimensional Euclidean group—the group of rotations and translations of Rn —is the natural canonical group for quantizing a system whose configuration space is the sphere Sn−1, n≥2. Since every unitary irreducible representation of E(n) is nonsquare integrable it follows that coherent states involving the whole group do not exist for such representations. Instead, coherent states are defined based on unitary, reducible representations of the group, and it will be shown that, with such states, quantum dynamics on the sphere admits a path-integral representation involving novel first-order classical actions defined on E(n) as well as integrations over the entire group manifold at each time slice. Irreducibility of the quantization is achieved through a final limiting process.
Abstract In this work, we construct different classes of coherent states related to a quantum system, recently studied in [1], of an electron moving in a plane in uniform external magnetic and electric fields which possesses both discrete and continuous spectra. The eigenfunctions are realized as an orthonormal basis of a suitable Hilbert space appropriate for building the related coherent states. These latter are achieved in the context where we consider both spectra purely discrete obeying the criteria that a family of coherent states must satisfy.
Abstract Some general properties of coherent states of a particle in quantum mechanics are discussed and examples of relativistics coherent states of an electron moving in a steady and homogeneous field and in a non‐stationary external field of special kind are presented. In particular cases this field may be a plane wave, a Redmond field (a superposition of plane wave and homogenous magnetic field), a superposition of a Redmond field and a longitudinal electric field or other physically interesting fields.
We have seen before that spin coherent states are strongly linked with the algebraic and geometric properties of the Euclidean 2-sphere S2. We shall now consider analogue setting when the sphere is replaced by the 2-pseudosphere i.e. the Euclidean metric in R3 is replaced by the Minkowski metric and the group SO(3) by the symmetry group SO(2, 1). The main big difference with the Euclidean case is that in the Minkowski case the pseudosphere and its symmetry groupe SO(2, 1) are not compact and that all irreducible unitary representations of SO(2, 1) are infinite dimensional.