Charged Schrödinger particle in a c -number radiation field
Tadashi Toyoda, K. Wildermuth
We formulate a method to derive the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation which describes the interaction of an electron with a $c$-number radiation field. To obtain this semiclassical approximation from the complete quantum-mechanical formulation we use the corresponding Schr\"odinger equation in its projection form, which is an extension of the Hill-Wheeler generator coordinate method. For the basis states of the radiation field we introduce a complete, but not overcomplete, subset of coherent states, which were found by von Neumann and whose proof of completeness was given by Bargmann et al. and Perdomov. We find that the conventional overcomplete continuous coherent states are not suitable for the projection form of the Schr\"odinger equation. The method also allows one to calculate quantum-mechanical correction terms systematically.
Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields•Nov 15, 1980•6 citations