Supersymmetric approach to coherent states for nonlinear oscillator with spatially dependent effective mass

Abstract

A nonlinear oscillator with variable mass is studied in the approach of Supersymmetric quantum mechanics. Ladder operators in association with the shape invariance condition allowed us to find the coherent states of the system in the sense of Barut and Girardello. The statistical properties of these particular states are studied using the probability of distribution. In addition, the vibrational partition function is calculated. We see that the thermodynamic functions of the system such as mean energy and entropy depend on the nonlinearity parameter, except for the specific heat.

Keywords

• Condensed matter physics
• Quantum mechanics
• Supersymmetry
• Nonlinearity parameter
• Coherent state
• Entropy