A new coherent paired state with possible applications to fluctuation-dissipation phenomena

Abstract

The authors extend their previous work on coherent paired states associated with the Lie group SU(1,1). Whereas the earlier states were defined with respect to a single type of canonical boson or (linear) quantum harmonic oscillator, the new states are defined in terms of two distinct types of bosons or oscillators. The new coherent states may again, on the one hand, be viewed as ordinary (Glauber) coherent states in the two-boson Hilbert space spanned by arbitrary numbers of two distinct Bogoliubov quasiparticles associated with the original bosons via a generalised Bogoliubov transformation. Alternatively, expressed wholly in terms of the original bosons these new coherent states are reached from the ordinary coherent states via a unitary (pairing) transformation which is shown to be associated with the entire so-called discrete series of representations of the group SU(1,1). As an important illustration of the use of these states and transformations, they study in detail a rather general class of quantum Lagrangians which includes the damped linear harmonic oscillator. They thereby illustrate their possible usefulness in applications to quantum many-body or field-theoretic processes involving fluctuation-dissipation phenomena in general.