ATOMIC COHERENT STATES AS THE EIGENSTATES OF A TWO-DIMENSIONAL ANISOTROPIC HARMONIC OSCILLATOR IN A UNIFORM MAGNETIC FIELD

Abstract

In the newly constructed entangled state representation embodying quantum entanglement of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen, the usual wave function of atomic coherent state ∣τ〉 = exp (μJ+-μ*J-)∣j, -j〉 turns out to be just proportional to a single-variable ordinary Hermite polynomial of order 2j, where j is the spin value. We then prove that a two-dimensional time-independent anisotropic harmonic oscillator in a uniform magnetic field possesses energy eigenstates which can be classified as the states ∣τ〉 in terms of the spin values j.