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Contents
Preface XIII Part One Coherent States 1 1Introduction3 1.1 The Motivations 3 2 The Standard Coherent States: the Basics 13 2.1 Schrödinger Definition 13 2.2 Four Representations of Quantum States 13 2.2.1 Position Representation 14 2.2.2 Momentum Representation 14 2.2.3 Number or Fock Representation 15 2.2.4 A Little (Lie) Algebraic Observation 16 2.2.5 Analytical or Fock–Bargmann Representation 16 2.2.6 Operators in Fock–Bargmann Representation 17 2.3 Schrödinger Coherent States 18 2.3.1 Bergman Kernel as a Coherent State 18 2.3.2 A First Fundamental Property 19 2.3.3 Schrödinger Coherent States in the Two Other Representations 19 2.4 Glauber–Klauder–Sudarshan or Standard Coherent States 20 2.5 Why the Adjective Coherent? 20 3 The Standard Coherent States: the (Elementary) Mathematics 25 3.1 Introduction 25 3.2 Properties in the Hilbertian Framework 26 3.2.1 A “Continuity” from the Classical Complex Plane to Quantum States 26 3.2.2 “Coherent” Resolution of the Unity 26 3.2.3 The Interplay Between the Circle (as a Set of Parameters) and the Plane (as a Euclidean Space) 27 3.2.4 Analytical Bridge 28 3.2.5 Overcompleteness and Reproducing Properties 29 3.3 Coherent States in the Quantum Mechanical Context 30 3.3.1 Symbols 30 3.3.2 Lower Symbols 30
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3.3.3 Heisenberg Inequalities 31 3.3.4 Time Evolution and Phase Space 32 3.4 Properties in the Group-Theoretical Context 35 3.4.1 The Vacuum as a Transported Probe . . . 35 3.4.2 Under the Action of . . . 36 3.4.3 . . . the D-Function 37 3.4.4 Symplectic Phase and the Weyl–Heisenberg Group 37 3.4.5 Coherent States as Tools in Signal Analysis 38 3.5 Quantum Distributions and Coherent States 40 3.5.1 The Density Matrix and the Representation “R” 41 3.5.2 The Density Matrix and the Representation “Q” 41 3.5.3 The Density Matrix and the Representation “P” 42 3.5.4 The Density Matrix and the Wigner(–Weyl–Ville) Distribution 43 3.6 The Feynman Path Integral and Coherent States 44 4 Coherent States in Quantum Information: an Example of Experimental Manipulation 49 4.1 Quantum States for Information 49 4.2 Optical Coherent States in Quantum Information 50 4.3 Binary Coherent State Communication 51 4.3.1 Binary Logic with Two Coherent States 51 4.3.2 Uncertainties on POVMs 51 4.3.3 The Quantum Error Probability or Helstrom Bound 52 4.3.4 The Helstrom Bound in Binary Communication 53 4.3.5 Helstrom Bound for Coherent States 53 4.3.6 Helstrom Bound with Imperfect Detection 54 4.4 The Kennedy Receiver 54 4.4.1 The Principle 54 4.4.2 Kennedy Receiver Error 55 4.5 The Sasaki–Hirota Receiver 56 4.5.1 The Principle 56 4.5.2 Sasaki–Hirota Receiver Error 56 4.6 The Dolinar Receiver 57 4.6.1 The Principle 57 4.6.2 Photon Counting Distributions 58 4.6.3 Decision Criterion of the Dolinar Receiver 58 4.6.4 Optimal Control 59 4.6.5 Dolinar Hypothesis Testing Procedure 60 4.7 The Cook–Martin–Geremia Closed-Loop Experiment 61 4.7.1 A Theoretical Preliminary 61 4.7.2 Closed-Loop Experiment: the Apparatus 63 4.7.3 Closed-Loop Experiment: the Results 65 4.8 Conclusion 67 5 Coherent States: a General Construction 69 5.1 Introduction 69 Contents VII
5.2 A Bayesian Probabilistic Duality in Standard Coherent States 70 5.2.1 Poisson and Gamma Distributions 70 5.2.2 Bayesian Duality 71 5.2.3 The Fock–Bargmann Option 71 5.2.4 A Scheme of Construction 72 5.3 General Setting: “Quantum” Processing of a Measure Space 72 5.4 Coherent States for the Motion of a Particle on the Circle 76 5.5 More Coherent States for the Motion of a Particle on the Circle 78 6 The Spin Coherent States 79 6.1 Introduction 79 6.2 Preliminary Material 79 6.3 The Construction of Spin Coherent States 80 6.4 The Binomial Probabilistic Content of Spin Coherent States 82 6.5 Spin Coherent States: Group-Theoretical Context 82 6.6 Spin Coherent States: Fock–Bargmann Aspects 86 6.7 Spin Coherent States: Spherical Harmonics Aspects 86 6.8 Other Spin Coherent States from Spin Spherical Harmonics 87 6.8.1 Matrix Elements of the SU(2) Unitary Irreducible Representations 87 6.8.2 Orthogonality Relations 89 6.8.3 Spin Spherical Harmonics 89 6.8.4 Spin Spherical Harmonics as an Orthonormal Basis 91 6.8.5 The Important Case: σ = j91 6.8.6 Transformation Laws 92 6.8.7 Infinitesimal Transformation Laws 92 6.8.8 “Sigma-Spin” Coherent States 93 6.8.9 Covariance Properties of Sigma-Spin Coherent States 95 7 Selected Pieces of Applications of Standard and Spin Coherent States 97 7.1 Introduction 97 7.2 Coherent States and the Driven Oscillator 98 7.3 An Application of Standard or Spin Coherent States in Statistical Physics: Superradiance 103 7.3.1 The Dicke Model 103 7.3.2 The Partition Function 105 7.3.3 The Critical Temperature 106 7.3.4 Average Number of Photons per Atom 108 7.3.5 Comments 109 7.4 Application of Spin Coherent States to Quantum Magnetism 109 7.5 Application of Spin Coherent States to Classical and Thermodynamical Limits 111 7.5.1 Symbols and Traces 112 7.5.2 Berezin–Lieb Inequalities for the Partition Function 114 7.5.3 Application to the Heisenberg Model 116 VIII Contents
8 SU(1,1) or SL(2, R) Coherent States 117 8.1 Introduction 117 8.2 The Unit Disk as an Observation Set 117 8.3 Coherent States 119 8.4 Probabilistic Interpretation 120 8.5 Poincaré Half-Plane for Time-Scale Analysis 121 8.6 Symmetries of the Disk and the Half-Plane 122 8.7 Group-Theoretical Content of the Coherent States 123 8.7.1 Cartan Factorization 123 8.7.2 Discrete Series of SU(1, 1) 124 8.7.3 Lie Algebra Aspects 126 8.7.4 Coherent States as a Transported Vacuum 127 8.8 A Few Words on Continuous Wavelet Analysis 129 9AnotherFamilyofSU(1,1) Coherent States for Quantum Systems 135 9.1 Introduction 135 9.2 Classical Motion in the Infinite-Well and Pöschl–Teller Potentials 135 9.2.1 Motion in the Infinite Well 136 9.2.2 Pöschl–Teller Potentials 138 9.3 Quantum Motion in the Infinite-Well and Pöschl–Teller Potentials 141 9.3.1 In the Infinite Well 141 9.3.2 In Pöschl–Teller Potentials 142 9.4 The Dynamical Algebra su(1, 1) 143 9.5 Sequences of Numbers and Coherent States on the Complex Plane 146 9.6 Coherent States for Infinite-Well and Pöschl–Teller Potentials 150 9.6.1 For the Infinite Well 150 9.6.2 For the Pöschl–Teller Potentials 152 9.7 Physical Aspects of the Coherent States 153 9.7.1 Quantum Revivals 153 9.7.2 Mandel Statistical Characterization 155 9.7.3 Temporal Evolution of Symbols 158 9.7.4 Discussion 162 10 Squeezed States and Their SU(1, 1) Content 165 10.1 Introduction 165 10.2 Squeezed States in Quantum Optics 166 10.2.1 The Construction within a Physical Context 166 10.2.2 Algebraic (su(1, 1)) Content of Squeezed States 171 10.2.3 Using Squeezed States in Molecular Dynamics 175 11 Fermionic Coherent States 179 11.1 Introduction 179 11.2 Coherent States for One Fermionic Mode 179 11.3 Coherent States for Systems of Identical Fermions 180 11.3.1 Fermionic Symmetry SU(r) 180 11.3.2 Fermionic Symmetry SO(2r) 185 Contents IX
11.3.3 Fermionic Symmetry SO(2r +1) 187 11.3.4 Graphic Summary 188 11.4 Application to the Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov Theory 189 Part Two Coherent State Quantization 191 12 Standard Coherent State Quantization: the Klauder–Berezin Approach 193 12.1 Introduction 193 12.2 The Berezin–Klauder Quantization of the Motion of a Particle on the Line 193 12.3 Canonical Quantization Rules 196 12.3.1 Van Hove Canonical Quantization Rules [161] 196 12.4 More Upper and Lower Symbols: the Angle Operator 197 12.5 Quantization of Distributions: Dirac and Others 199 12.6 Finite-Dimensional Canonical Case 202 13 Coherent State or Frame Quantization 207 13.1 Introduction 207 13.2 Some Ideas on Quantization 207 13.3 One more Coherent State Construction 209 13.4 Coherent State Quantization 211 13.5 A Quantization of the Circle by 2 ~ 2RealMatrices 214 13.5.1 Quantization and Symbol Calculus 214 13.5.2 Probabilistic Aspects 216 13.6 Quantization with k-Fermionic Coherent States 218 13.7 Final Comments 220 14 Coherent State Quantization of Finite Set, Unit Interval, and Circle 223 14.1 Introduction 223 14.2 Coherent State Quantization of a Finite Set with Complex 2 ~ 2 Matrices 223 14.3 Coherent State Quantization of the Unit Interval 227 14.3.1 Quantization with Finite Subfamilies of Haar Wavelets 227 14.3.2 A Two-Dimensional Noncommutative Quantization of the Unit Interval 228 14.4 Coherent State Quantization of theUnitCircleandtheQuantumPhase Operator 229 14.4.1 A Retrospective of Various Approaches 229 14.4.2 Pegg–Barnett Phase Operator and Coherent State Quantization 234 14.4.3 A Phase Operator from Two Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces 235 14.4.4 A Phase Operator from the Interplay Between Finite and Infinite Dimensions 237 15 Coherent State Quantization of Motions on the Circle, in an Interval, and Others 241 15.1 Introduction 241 15.2 Motion on the Circle 241 X Contents
15.2.1 The Cylinder as an Observation Set 241 15.2.2 Quantization of Classical Observables 242 15.2.3 Did You Say Canonical? 243 15.3 From the Motion of the Circle to the Motion on 1 + 1 de Sitter Space- Time 244 15.4 Coherent State Quantization oftheMotioninanInfinite-Well Potential 245 15.4.1 Introduction 245 15.4.2 The Standard Quantum Context 246 15.4.3 Two-Component Coherent States 247 15.4.4 Quantization of Classical Observables 249 15.4.5 Quantum Behavior through Lower Symbols 253 15.4.6 Discussion 254 15.5 Motion on a Discrete Set of Points 256 16 Quantizations of the Motion on the Torus 259 16.1 Introduction 259 16.2 The Torus as a Phase Space 259 16.3 Quantum States on the Torus 261 16.4 Coherent States for the Torus 265 16.5 Coherent States and Weyl Quantizations of the Torus 267 16.5.1 Coherent States (or Anti-Wick) Quantization of the Torus 267 16.5.2 Weyl Quantization of the Torus 267 16.6 Quantization of Motions on the Torus 269 16.6.1 Quantization of Irrational and Skew Translations 269 16.6.2 Quantization of the Hyperbolic Automorphisms of the Torus 270 16.6.3 Main Results 271 17 Fuzzy Geometries: Sphere and Hyperboloid 273 17.1 Introduction 273 17.2 Quantizations of the 2-Sphere 273 17.2.1 The 2-Sphere 274 17.2.2 The Hilbert Space and the Coherent States 274 17.2.3 Operators 275 17.2.4 Quantization of Observables 275 17.2.5 Spin Coherent State Quantization of Spin Spherical Harmonics 276 17.2.6 The Usual Spherical Harmonics as Classical Observables 276 17.2.7 Quantization in the Simplest Case: j =1 276 17.2.8 Quantization of Functions 277 17.2.9 The Spin Angular Momentum Operators 277 17.3 Link with the Madore Fuzzy Sphere 278 17.3.1 The Construction of the Fuzzy Sphere à la Madore 278 17.3.2 Operators 280 17.4 Summary 282 17.5 The Fuzzy Hyperboloid 283 Contents XI
18 Conclusion and Outlook 287 Appendix A The Basic Formalism of Probability Theory 289 A.1 Sigma-Algebra 289 A.1.1 Examples 289 A.2 Measure 290 A.3 Measurable Function 290 A.4 Probability Space 291 A.5 Probability Axioms 291 A.6 Lemmas in Probability 292 A.7 Bayes’s Theorem 292 A.8 Random Variable 293 A.9 Probability Distribution 293 A.10 Expected Value 294 A.11 Conditional Probability Densities 294 A.12 Bayesian Statistical Inference 295 A.13 Some Important Distributions 296 A.13.1 Degenerate Distribution 296 A.13.2 Uniform Distribution 296 Appendix B The Basics of Lie Algebra, Lie Groups, and Their Representations 303 B.1 Group Transformations and Representations 303 B.2 Lie Algebras 304 B.3 Lie Groups 306 B.3.1 Extensions of Lie algebras and Lie groups 310 Appendix C SU(2) Material 313 C.1 SU(2) Parameterization 313 C.2 Matrix Elements of SU(2) Unitary Irreducible Representation 313 C.3 Orthogonality Relations and 3 j Symbols 314 C.4 Spin Spherical Harmonics 315 C.5 Transformation Laws 317 C.6 Infinitesimal Transformation Laws 318 C.7 Integrals and 3 j Symbols 319 C.8 Important Particular Case: j =1 320 C.9 Another Important Case: σ = j 321 Appendix D Wigner–Eckart Theorem for Coherent State Quantized Spin Harmonics 323 Appendix E Symmetrization of the Commutator 325 References 329 Index 339
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Preface
This book originated from a series of advanced lectures on coherent states in physics delivered in Strasbourg, Louvain-la Neuve, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Rabat, and Bialystok, over the period from 1997 to 2008. In writing this book, I have attempted to maintain a cohesive self-contained content. Let me first give some insights into the notion of a coherent state in physics. Within the context of classical mechanics, a physical system is described by states which are points of its phase space (and more generally densities). In quantum mechanics, the system is described by states which are vectors (up to a phase) in a Hilbert space (and more generally by density operators). There exist superpositions of quantum states which have many features (prop- erties or dynamical behaviors) analogous to those of their classical counterparts: they are the so-called coherent states, already studied by Schrödinger in 1926 and rediscovered by Klauder, Glauber, and Sudarshan at the beginning of the 1960s. The phrase “coherent states” was proposed by Glauber in 1963 in the context of quantum optics. Indeed, these states are superpositions of Fock states of the quan- tized electromagnetic field that, up to a complex factor, are not modified by the action of photon annihilation operators. They describe a reservoir with an undeter- mined number of photons, a situation that can be viewed as formally close to the classical description in which the concept of a photon is absent. The purpose of these lecture notes is to explain the notion of coherent states and of their various generalizations, since Schrödinger up to some of the most recent conceptual advances and applications in different domains of physics and signal analysis. The guideline of the book is based on a unifying method of construc- tion of coherent states, of minimal complexity. This method has a substantially probabilistic content and allows one to establish a simple and natural link between practically all families of coherent states proposed until now. This approach em- bodies the originality of the book in regard to well-established procedures derived essentially from group theory (e.g., coherent state family viewed as the orbit under the action of a group representation) or algebraic constraints (e.g., coherent states viewed as eigenvectors of some lowering operator), and comprehensively present- ed in previous treatises, reviews, an extensive collection of important papers, and proceedings.
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A working knowledge of basic quantum mechanics and related mathematical formalisms, e.g., Hilbert spaces and operators, is required to understand the con- tents of this book. Nevertheless, I have attempted to recall necessary definitions throughout the chapters and the appendices. The book is divided into two parts. • The first part introduces the reader progressively to the most familiar co- herent states, their origin, their construction (for which we adopt an origi- nal and unifying procedure), and their application/relevance to various (al- though selected) domains of physics. • The second part, mostly based on recent original results, is devoted to the question of quantization of various sets (including traditional phase spaces of classical mechanics) through coherent states.
Acknowledgements My thanks go to Barbara Heller (Illinois Institute of Tech- nology, Chicago), Ligia M.C.S. Rodrigues (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro), and Nicolas Treps (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6) for reading my manuscript and offering valuable advice, sug- gestions, and corrections. They also go to my main coworkers who contributed to various extents to this book – Syad Twareque Ali (Concordia University, Montreal), Jean-Pierre Antoine (Université Catholique de Louvain), Nicolae Cotfas (University of Bucharest), Eric Huguet (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7), John Klauder (Uni- versity of Florida, Gainesville), Pascal Monceau (Université d’Ivry), Jihad Mourad (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7), Karol Penson (Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6), Włodzimierz Piechocki (Sołtan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw), and Jacques Renaud (Université Paris-Est) – and my PhD or former PhD students Lenin Arcadio García de León Rumazo, Mónica Suárez Esteban, Julien Quéva, Petr Siegl, and Ahmed Youssef.
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1 Introduction
1.1 The Motivations
Coherent states were first studied by Schrödinger in 1926 [1] and were rediscovered by Klauder [2–4], Glauber [5–7], and Sudarshan [8] at the beginning of the 1960s. The term “coherent” itself originates in the terminology in use in quantum optics (e.g., coherent radiation, sources emitting coherently). Since then, coherent states and their various generalizations have disseminated throughout quantum physics and related mathematical methods, for example, nuclear, atomic, and condensed matter physics, quantum field theory, quantization and dequantization problems, path integrals approaches, and, more recently, quantum information through the questions of entanglement or quantum measurement. The purpose of this book is to explain the notion of coherent states and of their various generalizations, since Schrödinger up to the most recent conceptual ad- vances and applications in different domains of physics, with some incursions into signal analysis. This presentation, illustrated by various selected examples, does not have the pretension to be exhaustive, of course. Its main feature is a unifying method of construction of coherent states, of minimal complexity and of proba- bilistic nature. The procedure followed allows one to establish a simple and nat- ural link between practically all families of coherent states proposed until now. It embodies the originality of the book in regard to well-established constructions de- rived essentially from group theory (e.g., coherent state family viewed as the orbit under the action of a group representation) or algebraic constraints (e.g., coher- ent states viewed as eigenvectors of some lowering operator), and comprehensively presented in previous treatises [10, 11], reviews [9, 12–14], an extensive collection of important papers [15], and proceedings [16]. As early as 1926, at the very beginning of quantum mechanics, Schrödinger [1] was interested in studying quantum states, which mimic their classical counter- parts through the time evolution of the position operator:
i i Q(t)=e Ht Qe– Ht . (1.1)
In this relation, H = P 2/2m + V (Q) is the quantum Hamiltonian of the system. Schrödinger understood classical behavior to mean that the average or expected
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value of the position operator, q(t)= coherent state|Q(t)|coherent state , in the desired state, would obey the classical equation of motion: ∂V m¨q(t)+ = 0 . (1.2) ∂q Schrödinger was originally concerned with the harmonic oscillator, V (q)= 1 2 2 2 | | iϕ 2 m ω q . The states parameterized by the complex number z = z e ,andde- noted by |z , are defined in a way such that one recovers the familiar sinusoidal solution