title: New coherent state representation for the imaginary time propagator with applications to forward-backward semiclassical initial value representations of correlation functions.
abstract: There have been quite a few attempts in recent years to provide an initial value coherent state representation for the imaginary time propagator exp(-betaH). The most notable is the recent time evolving Gaussian approximation of Frantsuzov and Mandelshtam [J. Chem. Phys. 121, 9247 (2004)] which may be considered as an expansion of the imaginary time propagator in terms of coherent states whose momentum is zero. In this paper, a similar but different expression is developed in which exp(-betaH) is represented in a series whose terms are weighted phase space averages of coherent states. Such a representation allows for the formulation of a new and simplified forward-backward semiclassical initial value representation expression for thermal correlation functions.
authors.affiliation: Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovoth, Israel.
authors.forename: Eli
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pollak
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Martin-Fierro