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Coherent states were first introduced into quantum mechanics by Schrödinger1 in 1926, when he explicitly constructed a set of states |A> for the simple harmonic oscillator, which obeyed the classical equations of motion:
; and which did not display the otherwise rather universal quantum phenomenon of “spreading of the wavepacket” or dispersion. The concept of coherent state as it is understood today was first introduced by Glauber,2 who showed how the states constructed by Schrödinger could be used to provide a good quantum-mechanical description of a coherent beam of light as obtained from a laser. Since then, these states have been very profitably further exploited in the field of quantum optics by Glauber and Sudarshan,2,3 and many others that followed them.
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Bishop, R.F., Vourdas, A. (1986). Pairing Correlations, Coherent States, and Black Holes. In: Malik, F.B. (eds) Condensed Matter Theories. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6707-3_3
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