Phys. Rev. A 60, 1797–1801 (1999)Classical-like states of spin s=1/2Received 28 September 1998; revised 25 January 1999; published in the issue dated September 1999 Recently a physically transparent definition of classical-like states of a quantum one-dimensional particle in a potential has been proposed [D. M. Davidović and D. Lalović, J. Phys. A. 31, 2281 (1998)]; such states have been explicitly constructed and studied. In the present paper we formulated an analogous definition of the classical-like states of a quantum system with no underlying classical model, namely the spin s=1/2. The definition leads to a natural and consistent measure of the classical characteristics of a quantum state. We then constructed such classical-like states explicitly, and discussed their properties. © 1999 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.60.1797
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.60.1797
PACS:
03.65.Sq
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