An algebraic approach to a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field



Document title: An algebraic approach to a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field
Journal: Revista mexicana de física E
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000431218
ISSN: 1870-3542
Authors: 1
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Institutions: 1Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Escuela Superior de Cómputo, Ciudad de México. México
2Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, Ciudad de México. México
3Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, Ciudad de México. México
Year:
Season: Jul-Dic
Volumen: 64
Number: 2
Country: México
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, teórico
English abstract We study the problem of a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field with two different gauges, known as Landau and symmetric gauges. By using a similarity transformation in terms of the displacement operator we show that, for the Landau gauge, the eigenfunctions for this problem are the harmonic oscillator number coherent states. In the symmetric gauge, we calculate the SU (1,1) Perelomov number coherent states for this problem in cylindrical coordinates in a closed form. Finally, we show that these Perelomov number coherent states are related to the harmonic oscillator number coherent states by the contraction of the SU (1,1) group to the Heisenberg-Weyl group
Disciplines: Física y astronomía,
Matemáticas
Keyword: Matemáticas puras,
Estados coherentes,
Teoría de grupos,
Niveles de Landau
Keyword: Pure mathematics,
Coherent states,
Group theory,
Landau levels
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