In this chapter we introduce the Glauber coherent states of a quantized field as eigenstates of the annihilation operator and as displaced vacuum states. The phase-space picture of coherent states is introduced, along with phase-space probability distributions, namely the Q distribution, the P distribution, and the Wigner function, and their interrelations are discussed.
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