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By virtue of integration technique within ordered product of operators and Dirac’s representation theory we find a new general formula for normally ordering coordinate-momentum operator functions, that is \(f(g\hat {{Q}}+h\hat {P})= :\exp [\textstyle {g^{2}+h^{2} \over 4}\textstyle {{\partial ^{2}} \over {\partial (g\hat {{Q}}+h\hat {P})^{2}}}]f(g\hat {{Q}}+h\hat {P})\):, where \(\hat {Q}\) and \(\hat {P}\) are the coordinate operator and momentum operator respectively, the symbol :: denotes normal ordering. Using this formula we can derive a series of new relations about Hermite polynomial and Laguerre polynomial, as well as some new differential relations.
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The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11175113), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11504095), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (Grant No. ZR2015AM025).
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Xu, SM., Xu, XL., Li, HQ. et al. New General Approach for Normally Ordering Coordinate-Momentum Operator Functions. Int J Theor Phys 55, 5348–5355 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-016-3155-z
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