Abstract

The coherent (or quasiclassical or Glauber) quantum states give in author's opinion a very concise and physical way to describe transient vibrational dynamics of molecules and solids, either when these systems are excited (mainly by processes which are short on the vibrational time scale) or when they, afterwards, relax under the action of internal forces. At such length that it seems possible to say that matter is much more coherent than so far assumed.

© 1984 Optical Society of America