Minimum Uncertainty States

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Necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a minimum uncertainty state for a pair of observables is given. An introduction to coherent states in a very general setting is added as examples of minimum uncertainty states.

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Sharan, P. (2023). Minimum Uncertainty States. In: Some Unusual Topics in Quantum Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 1020. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35962-0_14

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