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Compute
from your
solution and show that we may write
in the
form
, where
and
are constants independent of time.
( Background: Note that this means that the probability
distribution does not change shape but simply shifts rigidly back and
forth as a function 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 Mar 14 03:20:24 EST 1996