Electron-hole coherent states for the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/8/085302zbMATH Open1342.81196arXiv1509.06936OpenAlexW2161605345WikidataQ59471856 ScholiaQ59471856MaRDI QIDQ2994582FDOQ2994582

Authors: Jordan Langham-Lopez, Sven Gnutzmann, Marek Kuś 

Publication date: 2 August 2016

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct a new set of generalized coherent states, the electron-hole coherent states, for a (quasi-)spin particle on the infinite line. The definition is inspired by applications to the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations where the quasi-spin refers to electron- and hole-like components of electronic excitations in a superconductor. Electron-hole coherent states generally entangle the space and the quasi-spin degrees of freedom. We show that the electron-hole coherent states allow obtaining a resolution of unity and form minimum uncertainty states for position and velocity where the velocity operator is defined using the Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonian. The usefulness and the limitations of electron-hole coherent states and the phase space representations built from them are discussed in terms of basic applications to the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation such as Andreev reflection.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06936

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zbMATH Keywords

coherent statesquantum-classical correspondencephase space formulation of quantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Coherent states (81R30) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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