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Acta Physica Sinica

COHERENT STATES OF HYDROGEN ATOM

Xu Bo-wei, ZENG QI, 上海交通大学物理系,上海,200030

Published Jan 1, 1991• 2 citations
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Abstract

From Kustannheimo-Stiefel transformation, the hygrogen problem in quantum mechanics can be transformed to that of a four dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator with constrain. The coherent states are defined, for which the expectation values of the position and the momentum are shown to give the classical Kepler orbits. The uncertainty relations for the coherent states are discussed as well.

DOI
10.7498/aps.40.1212

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