Diagonal Coherent-State Representation of Quantum Operators

1967/05/01 by C. L. Mehta · 144 citations
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paper · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.18.752

published in Physical Review Letters 18(18), 752-754 (American Physical Society)

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Abstract

We derive a simple expression for the diagonal coherent-state representation of quantum operators, and discuss some of its applications.Received 16 March 1967DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.18.752©1967 American Physical Society

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