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(12 pts) Coherent State of Simple Harmonic Oscillator

To investigate Ehrenfest's Theorem in a non-trivial case, consider a particle of mass m in a one-dimension simple Harmonic oscillator of frequency . The Hamiltonian for this system is then given by

In this problem we will deal with a special class of solutions to the time dependent Schrodinger for the harmonic oscillator known as ``coherent'' states. These solutions all have the form

 





Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Thu Oct 12 17:12:55 EDT 1995