Generalized Wehrl entropies and Euclidean Landau levels

Abstract

We are concerned with a class of generalized coherent states (GCS) attached to Euclidean Landau levels (or to [Formula: see text]-true-polyanalytic spaces), which can be obtained by displacing a Gaussian–Hermite function as an admissible (or window) function. Precisely, we evaluate the Wehrl entropy for a density operator representing a projector on a Fock state (pure states) and we give an upper bound for this entropy. We also establish an exact formula of this entropy for the heat operator (mixed states) associated with the harmonic oscillator. In this case, the behavior of the entropy with respect to the temperature parameter shows the dependence of its minimum to the Landau level or equivalently to the window function by means of which the GCS involved in the Wehrl entropy were constructed.