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Compute from your solution and show that the probability distribution does not change shape but simply shifts rigidly back and forth as a function of time. Stated mathematically, this means that we may write in the form , where and are constants independent of time. The fact that the distribution keeps its shape as a function of time is related to why these solutions are called coherent states.



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