Skip to content

Realistic Picture of 2D Harmonic Oscillator Coherent States

Michel Gondran

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0511275

Abstract

We show that a 2D harmonic oscillator coherent state is a soliton which has the same evolution as a spinning top: the center of mass follows a classical trajectory and the particle rotates around its center of mass in the same direction as its spin with the harmonic oscillator frequency.

Create a lesson