Coherent States and Their Applications A Contemporary Panorama

Coherent states (CS) were originally introduced in 1926 by Schrödinger and rediscovered in the early 1960s in the context of laser physics. Since then, they have evolved into an extremely rich domain that pervades virtually every corner of physics, and ha

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Coherent States and Their Applications A Contemporary Panorama

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Editors Jean-Pierre Antoine Institut de recherche en mathématique et physique Université catholique de Louvain Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium

Jean-Pierre Gazeau Laboratoire APC Paris Diderot University Paris France

Fabio Bagarello Dipartimento di Energia Ingegneria dell’Informazione e Modelli Matematici Palermo Italy

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