Monday, 25 September 2017

quantum mechanics - Harmonic oscillator coherent state expectation values


I'm looking to calculate the expected values of a coherent state (of a harmonic oscillator) evolving in time. I know that the x and p expectation values are as in classical motion, but I'm wondering about x2 and p2.


Let's say I'm starting with the coherent state |b, with bR, so the wavefunction is the ground state displaced by bx02:



ψb(x)=ψ0(xbx02)


Or similarly the Wigner function will be


Wb(x,p)=W0(xbx02,p)


Now I know the expected values of x and p are classical:


x(t)=bx02cos(ωt) p(t)=bp02sin(ωt)


But what about x2(t) and p2(t) and ?




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